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Rolling the Google Dice

I never really found StumbleUpon to be useful or even entertaining. I get enough new websites through my feed subscriptions everyday not to need random suggestions of where to spend 5 more minutes online.

Google though have hit on something a bit more interesting. The Google Toolbar now includes a dice icon that uses your Google search history to recommend a new site.

It will take more than a few minutes to see if it really works but basing recommendations on queries you have typed into Google in the past rather than votes by other users seems a better strategy.

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 8:43 am and is filed under Google, Post, dice, recommendation, stumbleupon. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Chris Gallagher 1 year ago 1 point
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Thats cool. With stumbleUpon i recall that it asks you to list your topics of interest and the granularity of these wasnt all that low. With Google powering this one, they already know what we look at every day and hence can present much more relevant content. I don't think I'll end up using it all the same.-

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