Googley Goodness
There are a couple items of interest relating to Google this week. The first is Stephen Colbert’s attempt at a Googlebomb to become the Greatest Living American. But will it work? He doesn’t have “greatest living american” anywhere on his site. However, it doesn’t appear that the Googlebomb has been diffused yet. In my most recent search he came up #9 on the front page.
In other Google related news, Google has built a StumbleUpon-like feature into their toolbar. After attempting to buy StumbleUpon, they lost out to Ebay, so they made their own. It seems to return some very relevant results. I don’t see any way to “vote” on a page like you can with Stumble, though, which is something I like about Stumble. I do like that with Google the recommended pages are far more personalized. So, while both Stumble and Google now have similar functions, they’re different enough that I’ll keep and use both.
