Google released a StumbleUpon-like tool to its toolbar.

I briefly used StumbleUpon before this and it didn’t stick very much to me. A huge part of it is because the random websites were not interesting to me. They were just random. In a later version, they allowed user to specify categories that interest them to make the random websites more relevant. That was still configuration to do.

I like Google’s new service better. Zero-configuration. It serves up random websites based on the history of my web searches.

Some say this invades my privacy. This does not bother me. As the Cheers song goes,’.. sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name..’. Sometimes I want to go somewhere where everybody knows what I want.

Om Malik says Google got punked by eBay. I don’t understand this argument. Just as I do not understand how Yahoo won by buying del.icio.us. To-date, Yahoo still offers both its own bookmark service and the del.icio.us service. Just because del.ico.us is owned by Yahoo does not make it more Yahoo-ish or gives Yahoo some superior edge.

As a end-user, I like Google’s dice service better.