Comments on: Google Crap(s) vs StumbleUpon – Personalized Recommendations

By: Binh Nguyen

Binh Nguyen — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 11:36:06 +0000

Thanks for this article. That do mean StumbleUpon is sending better pages to you compare to Google dice.

By: Google Toolbar Is Sick - Now Removed | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing

Google Toolbar Is Sick - Now Removed | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:24:42 +0000

[...] Some time ago I wrote about Google's personalized recommendations button, affectionately know as Google Dice or as I referred to it Google Crap(s). [...]

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Wed, 16 May 2007 21:04:26 +0000

I am glad to see one are where Google isn’t the winner. They’d have to come up with a much more superior product to StumbleUpon before I would make the move over.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:37:17 +0000

I was going to give it a try, but for some reasons I couldn’t find it on my toolbar :(

By: Kentucky Greg

Kentucky Greg — Tue, 08 May 2007 14:18:04 +0000

Your example was great. It drove home the point about google sucking up by recommending tlds. This is sort of the MS approach… release a crappy product and hope to win due to market penetration & try to improve it over time. I can’t remember who (aaron wall maybe) posted a couple weeks ago how google released this as soon as they decided not to buy stumble upon. Maybe coincidental but odd.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 08 May 2007 13:29:59 +0000

I guess google isn’t the “all seeing eye” as I have sometimes thought. Very cool information you’ve provided here, as usual.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Tue, 08 May 2007 03:05:42 +0000

Thanks for actually taking the tme to include the results so we could compare. Stumble results look much better. I had actually visited most of the pages on the Google “Craps” results also. Great article. I’m glad I did not download it yet.

By: Hornswaggled

Hornswaggled — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:10:44 +0000

Google craps is pretty new and possibly just a stab at eBay for outbidding them on stumble.

The power of Stumble is the community. I think that the community here is actually better than the algorithms for finding ‘new’ content.

I havent tried the new Google Craps but will do so soon. Thanks for reminding me.

By: Steli Efti

Steli Efti — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:14:20 +0000

Learn something new every time I read something from you Andy. Thankx. Cool article!

By: Armen

Armen — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:27:53 +0000

This is an excellent article Andy. Thanks for the info.