Chance Encounters

When it comes to surf on the internet, the activities vary with every other person’s interest. Some simply log into their email inboxes and that’s all about it. Where as, others prefer to check their social networking accounts along with their emails. Yet their are those who check whether or not their favourite websites, say the Karachi Metblog for instance, have been updated.

However, there is definitely one group of individuals who wants to surf the Internet to find out for some new and interesting websites. In view of some it would be branded as an aimless browsing, but the group of people who admires it is more eager to do on daily basis. For them, sticking to a daily fare of gmail, Orkut and Google isn’t enough. They want more out of their Internet experience.

It is basically to facilitate these people with websites like Stumble Upon have appeared in cyberspace. Stumble Upon, to put it concisely, is simply an add-on in the popular browser, Mozilla Firefox. But it is definitely much more than that, even more than a toolbar. After you have installed the toolbar from the list of Mozilla add-ons, all you need to do is to sign up.

To sign up for Stumble Upon is quite easy. You simply need to log onto the website and make an account. It will then give you a vast selection of topics. This is significant because you can select all those areas which are of interest to you, and the theme on which you like to visit new websites. These categories are quite exhaustive because of the vast collection, you have quite a lot to select from. Once you are done in assorting the tpoics, you can save the changes you’ve made and then of course, you are ready to browse. Interestingly, note here, that you can update the list of topics at any time you want.

Once the installation is done and you have made your account, all you need is to click on the button in your toolbar which says “Stumble.” Then a random website related to any one of your topic of interest will load in your browser window. You can either go through the website if it appeals to you. Or you can simply click “Stumble” again to go to the next website.

You can also indicate your preferences for the websites to appear. Say, you really like a website that appears, you can click on the thumbs up sign in the toolbar. This will send a message that this website is the most relevant to your interest topic. If you think a website is not relevant to any of the topics that you have selected, simply click the thumbs down button to indicate displeasure.

However, most of the websites that Stumble Upon, loads are definitely interesting as well as enlightening. They make for a good read and you can be rest assured that these websites do not usually turn up if you try to hunt down websites of your topics of interest on a conventional search engine.

So, at the end of the day, without having to bear any search engine, you can get a wide assortment of websites to browse at leisure. That’s definitely not a bad deal considering the time that you save as well as the fact that you get access to websites which are more relevant for you! Many people are quite wary of toolbars, but this one is definitely worth a try.

Enhance your browsing experience at http://www.stumbleupon.com