Comments on: eBay to Acquire StumbleUpon/Google Launches Queryless Search

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:25:20 +0000

Google is probably trying to use this as a tool to get more people to use the Google Search History feature. I’m sure it was pretty simple for them to implement, and gives people more of a reason to allow Google to track their search history.

I’ll admit that I do use the Google Search History even though everyone tells me that I shouldn’t. People say that I’m just giving Google more information than they need to know, but I use my search history to find things that I have previously searched for. It is an amazingly useful feature, and I could really care less if Google knows what I’m searching for.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:50:52 +0000

I think Google probably wants it to be considered a competitor, but I really don’t think it will do very well. StumbleUpon has made a good name for themselves and they’ve got a lot of fans spreading the word to others to give it a try.

By: xpgeek

xpgeek — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:36:38 +0000

Yea I agree. It doesn’t really seem like even the same thing as Stumbleupon, not really. As a commenter on TechCrunch pointed out too, what happens when you don’t make a lot of Google searches? I actually don’t either, I have lots of bookmarks and RSS feeds and besides the occasional search for something I can’t find, my search history is mostly windows error messages too, process names, and addresses and phone number searches on Google maps. If its only using my past search history to choose sites to show me, its not going to come up with much variety. I too greatly prefer Stumbleupon’s method of letting me choose category’s of sites that I want to see, because most of the time the sites I’m shown is stuff I would never think of searching for anyway and never find on my own. Anyway, yea nice new feature of Google toolbar, but its hardly a competitor to Stumbleupon in my book.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:41:43 +0000

It’s interesting that they’re basing it upon search history, and I think I prefer StumbleUpon’s method of selecting categories that interest you.

By: CoryC

CoryC — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:07:10 +0000

Also, for the Google Recommendations, you can add a module with the source as [google.com]

As a matter of fact, searching the “Home Page Content Directory” (available from the “add stuff” link) a search for “recommendations” will return several module for Google recommendations including news, gadgets, pages, groups, and more.