Comments on: Is Stumble Upon the next Google?

By: The power of Stumbling — Shooting at Bubbles

The power of Stumbling — Shooting at Bubbles — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:42:49 +0000

[...] as possibly being the next Google; at least not like Julien over at In Over Your Head has. In an article posted today he says: Bold Statement of the Day: Stumble Upon’s traffic will be displacing the power of Boing [...]

By: Information R/evolution

Information R/evolution — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:51:43 +0000

[...] blogs, with Stumbleupon, with Digg, we keep the power. With structures that ask us our preferences, we can keep our human [...]

By: SEOspring » What is StumbleUpon?

SEOspring » What is StumbleUpon? — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:25:37 +0000

[...] resource that explains what StumbleUpon is from a REGULAR WEB USER perspective, rather than a blogger or webmaster perspective, which there are lots of. And oh, you can buy traffic from StumbleUpon [...]

By: Stupid Videos

Stupid Videos — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:00:22 +0000

I’ve seen huge jumps in my traffic from SU. The thing is that most of the traffic doesn’t convert to clicks. That is ok though because what SU does do is get my pages “out there” for others to see. The more people that see and like my pages the more that link to them.
SU is also fun and addictive.

By: Fan Fan Hulmaida

Fan Fan Hulmaida — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:48:24 +0000

If many SU users thumb down a site (a practice that does need to be encouraged among SU users), does Google then count that site as more highly linked, and so as more search-result worthy? That is, could SU make Google rank poor sites higher than it otherwise would? Or does the googlemachine recognize the thumbs down as a vote of no confidence?

By: StumbleUpon : Dirty little secret, ways to make money online

StumbleUpon : Dirty little secret, ways to make money online — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:32:08 +0000

[...] StumbleUpon is a useful tool that you can use to build up traffic to your blog. In fact, I find that StumbleUpon is much more powerful for me to get more visitors to use than social bookmarking sites like Digg. I guess bored Internet users are more inclined to go from site to site. And if your blog is delivering the information that they are looking for, then there’s a high chance that your blog will receive the better votes and continue on getting more hits. After all, if you don’t like a site, you can always click on the thumbs down button and you can rest assured StumbleUpon will not let you stumble upon that site again (No pun intended! :p). [...]

By: Will

Will — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:48:38 +0000

StumbleUpon is great! The algorithm behind SU is really good as well. There slightly large range of topics you select which SU randomly searches through is very innovative. However, I wish there was a larger range of more detailed topics.

By: Edd The Duck

Edd The Duck — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:03:56 +0000

Google = Index

Stumble Upon = Entertainment

I use the two for different things, if I am researching how to do something I use google, nobody is going to give a thum’s up on how to fix my graphics card, and the probability of finding it by chance is slim to none.

If I am bored or interested in a particular area I use stumble upon, to browse it or entertain myself.

The interesting area is the cross over where stumble interacts with google. This has dramatically changed my surfing habits. Now if search for something rather than picking the page which ranks highest in googles algorithms, I can cherry pick the ones people found most useful.

By: zaibatsu

zaibatsu — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:07:17 +0000

No.

Why do I say that, well the don’t have a Kevin Rose of Digg or Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google. Plus have you seen how much cash in the bank Google has…

nuff said

By: Meredith

Meredith — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:18:19 +0000

I stumbled in here, too. I do want to take issue with your comment about “Yahoo’s human edited directory” – as you acknowledged, it is no longer a dominant presence when looking for things on the web, but it was never particularly “human edited” – it was more like “oligarchy edited.” A truly human edited directory would be something like the Open Directory Project at dmoz.org – where anyone can edit.

By: Shrikant Joshi

Shrikant Joshi — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:55:17 +0000

Okay,

Since we are on the issue of gaming ang long-tail here, here’s a small question.

Can’t I game a site by using a false long tail? All I have to do is create a large number of false Stumbler identities, link them as friends to each other and rate a site high. Seems like a tough job, but a few lines of code might just do it, wot?

Don’t get me wrong I absolutely live off StumbleUpon and I would hate to see it gamed. But I’d love a sincere answer. How many times do you actually click the red-thumbs-down-i-dislike-it button during your stumbles?

I rarely do that. Never for stumblers. Maybe I should do it more often, eh?

By: Paul Sanchez

Paul Sanchez — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:14:49 +0000

SU has a great community too. The people there are extremely courteous and very helpful unlike some more popular social media sites. I hope the community stays the same as they grow. I love there video page too. What would be great if they made the video page just automatically play the next video so that you could just sit back and watch random videos. Well I’m heading over to SU right now.

Paul

By: Gary Allen

Gary Allen — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:15:24 +0000

SU reopened my interests in surfin’ again. someone liked the site you get.I can’t believe how cool the sites I found w/su are! A 5 star engine in my book !

By: WinExtra » The power of Stumbling

WinExtra » The power of Stumbling — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:01:25 +0000

[...] Now I have been a Stumbler for awhile now but I never thought of the service as possibly being the next Google; at least not like Julien over at In Over Your Head has. In an article posted today he says: Bold Statement of the Day: Stumble Upon’s traffic will be displacing the power of Boing Boing in a year. Possibly even less. [...]

By: coming up for air : comics and illustration » Archives » Stumble Upon

coming up for air : comics and illustration » Archives » Stumble Upon — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:44:56 +0000

[...] StumbleUpon rocks! I played around with it a little last year but now, thanks to this post from Julien Smith, I’m really starting to see its value as a social networking tool. [...]

By: Voice Guy

Voice Guy — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 03:51:51 +0000

Speaking of ironic, I happened to “Stumble Upon” your website this evening, only to read the headline with the question “Is Stumble Upon the Next Google”?

From my experience, you just may be right!

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:07:35 +0000

This is the stupidist question I’ve ever read online!!!111!!1111oneoneeleven

By: Penguin Pete

Penguin Pete — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 22:41:13 +0000

Your post is true for now, but there is a shark in the future and Stumble will jump it. I’ve been using it almost since it came out, and it is only recently (since it was ported to IE) that I’ve been getting some spammy sites, cheap knock-off junk, old joke sites that were stale back in 1997, and other offal. Like any other social site, it can and will be gamed by bots creating hundreds of fake IDs to rig recommends.

But it was nice while it lasted. The search feature is actually something I use as often as Google now, since it at least cuts out *some* of the irrelevant spam sites.

By: wiggy

wiggy — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:54:50 +0000

I gave up on Google ages ago(is it any good?) and, being a prolific Stumbleupon user,I have long come to realize that success of Stumbleupon is the sum aggregate of all its members plus the toolbar facility.It has a spontaneity and unexpected about it which surpasses the boredom of Google but SU is not a search engine per se and,to that end,performs an entirely different function.Whatever,VIVA THE REVOLUTION and “thumbs up” for giving we SUers a plug.

By: Stringo

Stringo — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 13:09:20 +0000

The power of Stumbleupon is to allow you to decide the make-up of the referral peers. This makes for a much better “surf”, while not usurping the power of Google’s search. It means that the internet can be serendipitous all over again.