Forget Surfing... Let's Stumble!

Yeah, that's right. My surfing days are done. No more Googling, Yahooing... or... well whatever those other guys are out there. I'm stumbling instead. Stumble Upon is an awesome resource. When you download and restart your internet browser, it will install a button bar at the top of your browser for you. Once you've signed up for a free account you can begin stumbling.

Stumble is nice because it allows you to select categories that interest you. I tend to stumble across a lot of art, design, photography, tech, game, and history sites because those are my chosen topics. When you hit the Stumble button it pulls up random pages geared towards your interests from all across the web. Search engines pull such a contrived variety of pages when you run a search, because they are limited to the keywords that you may happen to think of at any given time, but Stumble is unlimited, and with the user rated feature, you're sure to come across very few disappointing pages. If you happen to have a page you know and love that has not already been stumbled, you need only give it a thumbs up, write a quick review of it, and it is added to the list for other people to Stumble. Which means that you can add your own site to begin traffic generation as well. If people like your site it will climb in the ratings and earn even more traffic.

Stumble works so well in fact, that my bookmarks have grown exponentially! I have found a wealth of information and fun sites using Stumble Upon.  Not to mention Stumble has become quite addictively amusing. I never know what types of art I will come across, what manner of web-games, hacks, tips, or tricks, amongst other odd subjects of interest. I find that a lot of topics I normally research, I can dig up more quality information on over utilizing a normal search engine, and generally there’s more of a wealth of information to be had. Stumble in this sense becomes a bit of an exciting treasure hunt.