Comments on: Google releases StumbleUpon competitor

By: LA_Guy

LA_Guy — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:52:00 +0000

The term ‘evil’ is getting bandied about a lot here, to no purpose. People, this is a little app, for a browser, on your computer! Google is doing what an effective business does, competing where they have strength. eBay can certainly respond in kind by upfeaturing stumbleupon’s stuff if they want.

I noticed this week that installing stumbleupon *disables* the google toolbar in firefox. Does that make stumbleupon “evil”? Annoying, maybe – but please, save the term ‘evil’ for occasions when it’s really called for. This is not one of them.

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By: e5k | Ebay acquiert StumbleUpon/ Google copie StumbleUpon

e5k | Ebay acquiert StumbleUpon/ Google copie StumbleUpon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:46:17 +0000

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By: JDsBlog

JDsBlog — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:39:15 +0000

StumbleUpon - The Story Behind The $45M Buyout...

When I see news like the $45 million StumbleUpon Acquisition, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Right in front of our eyes, a young entrepreneur started, built, and sold a high profile company to a huge organization. After reading about the ...

By: Steve G.

Steve G. — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:35:39 +0000

Re comment #1 – The author doesn’t mention that it’s his patent application he’s referring to.

By: Pronet Advertising

Pronet Advertising — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:30:25 +0000

Google's Dice: It's a Gamble...

About a month and a half ago, Google Operating System noted that a previous iteration (from 2001) of the Google Toolbar had an intriguing functionality that at the time no one thought much of: voting a site up or down (via smiley face or frowning face)...

By: Exguides - Tech News, Wordpress Themes » Blog Archive » Google Rains On StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:08:12 +0000

[...] Om Malik says this is Google lashing out at StumbleUpon and eBay because they lost the deal. Given the timing, I tend to agree. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Owen Cutajar

Owen Cutajar — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:53:09 +0000

@Cyril: I don’t think they quite map onto each other that easily. The “I’m feeling lucky” gives you the first results based on your search. This one gives you a random site.

I’d be curious to know how many hits the “I’m feeling lucky” button actually gets though …

By: Cyril

Cyril — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:42:16 +0000

Seems logical for Google to expand their search function in that direction without dishing out the money for StumbleUpon. But I wonder, just like the “I’m feeling lucky” button, how many people are actually going to use it?

By: victor

victor — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:23:19 +0000

I think what google needs to get its acts together in social networking is a site like http://www.mediarati.com this site has a strong brand and fits perfectly.

By: ashok

ashok — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:29:41 +0000

I don’t know if my 2 cents means anything, but StumbleUpon is a really, really great community. I’ve met people there who are really quality individuals – people take finding good content pretty seriously – and we’ve been able to network in some cases and help each other out (I’m helping out guest-blogging with one).

I mean, I haven’t met people anywhere near this interested in meeting others or finding good sites at any other networking site. SU users are serious for the most part, from my limited vantage point. And again, I don’t know if that means anything if true.

By: TechCrunch en français » Ebay acquiert StumbleUpon/ Google copie StumbleUpon

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:45:23 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:59:47 +0000

This is a perfect example of how Google has in fact become more evil with time, despite their mantra. StumbleUpon is a cool community, and Google is doing nothing more than lashing out at a grassroots innovative effort and trying to use their raw data to squash it. Google is being a poor loser. Perhaps they’re also trying to send a message to the Web 2.0 crowd: you better sell your sorry service to us at our terms, or we’ll just recreate you in a week and put you out of business. Just wait until Google gets into social networking – they’ll put about 50 web 2.0 sites under.

By: Blendah Tom

Blendah Tom — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:05:57 +0000

Om,

Cmon you got to be kidding me..I think Ebay looks like they got punkd shelling out $40mm and now google will essentially build a better tool that will incorporate better features all they have to do is add the "Vote" buttons back again...also Google has been going down this personalization highway for quite awhile.. CSE etc.. I think this is a brilliant move by Google to steal the spotlight away from a competitor..

and who knows they might even find a way to serve up ads too... maybe thru their new PPA system??

By: RaJ

RaJ — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:23:08 +0000

I agree with OM, as well no doubt Google has capacity to create an additional functionality like this in their existing toolbar. In other sense – Its a good decision google.

http://www.suggestusability.com