Stumble Upon

In couple of my earlier posts, I had mentioned about stumbling upon interesting details or web sites. Well, today, I actually stumbled upon what is called "Stumble Upon"! This is a search engine that lets you stumble upon interesting or useful sites based on your preferences. This engine has been around for a quite a while and I remember using it a couple of years back (when it was in its nascent stages). Today, the site has grown really well and has refined its search algorithms to a great extent. The best part is, it can be added as a toolbar in your favorite
browser (I just added it to Firefox). You can set preferences on the categories of your choice and once set, all you have to do, is click on the "Stumble" button and wait for the engine to take you to a whole lot of interesting sites. You can even rank these sites and based on the rankings, the engine will learn (A.I) about the various sites it fetches and if some of them are bad, they will be silently sidelined. It is always fun to stumble upon information and a good time pass if you are bored to death and badly want a break. Check out all this and much more at
http://www.stumbleupon.com/