Show StumbleUpon Ratings in Search Results

Over at TechCrunch I read with interest that StumbleUpon can display ratings right in your Google search results. This may or may not be news to you, it certainly was to me. Apparently it is an option when you install the toolbar but this seems to be something that I missed.

To switch on the feature select Tools / Toolbar Options in your toolbar and click the Configuration tab. The tickboxes you need are at the top.

Set StumbleUpon toolbar to show stumbles in search

Once you have enabled this feature you will see ratings and any friends who stumbled a particular result embedded in the search result page as in the screenshot below.

My blog tagged as pr0n??

Notice something strange about the second result? You might need to click to see the full thing.

That’s right, some StumbleUpon user has marked my article as pornography! Any ideas how I can report that?

Anyway, back to the toolbar feature. It seems they are going to be rolling out to other search engines and sites soon. See more at TechCrunch

Now, StumbleUpon is expanding that feature to search results for AOL and Ask, as well as for Google News, Yahoo News, Flickr, Wikipedia, and YouTube. StumbleUpon calls these SearchReviews. In addition to the general star ratings, members will also be able to see whether any of their friends have recommended or reviewed a particular site or page.

“We are doing social search,” says StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp, “but instead of creating a completely new search engine where you have to change your behavior, you can use the same search engine you use now.” As long as you have the toolbar, StumbleUpon’s ratings get layered on top of other search engine results and Web pages. “We should be able to do this for any site on the Web,”

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Chris Garrett 
Filed Under Web 2.0

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6 Responses to “Show StumbleUpon Ratings in Search Results”

  1. Aaron Stroud on October 24th, 2007 8:13 am

    Odd, the faq describes a fairly simple process for relabeling stumbles. Unfortunately the “update” link appears to be missing. I flagged the site for a review. Hopefully that’ll help.

    http://www.stumbleupon.com/faq.html#wrongtopic

  2. Chris Garrett on October 24th, 2007 11:01 am

    Cool, thanks Aaron :)

  3. Aaron Stroud on October 24th, 2007 9:09 pm

    Np. The person who originally stumbled the post was a British chap. Perhaps he knows you and thought it was a joke?

  4. Chris Garrett on October 25th, 2007 12:59 pm

    I have messaged him. Interested to see what the response is …

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