StumbleUpon lets you find random Wikipedia, Myspace pages

How often have you been using the StumbleUpon toolbar to find random sites on the internet when you stopped and said to yourself, wouldn't it be great if I could specify that I want to find random government web sites, or perhaps PBS pages?

Umm yeah. Well, meeting a demand that may not have existed, StumbleUpon has launched a new feature called StumbleThru.

Basically, you can go to the StumbleThru start page and click on Wikipedia, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube, Blogspot, WordPress, The onion, PBS, Physorg, CNN, the BBC, .GOV, or .EDU. You'll be taken to a page that fits the description.

The selection's not exactly random. You'll only be taken to a site that's been rated highly by fellow stumblers. If you happen across a page fitting these criteria that you like during your non-stumbling adventures on the internet, you can use the StumbleUpon toolbar to give it a thumbs up, and presumably future StumbleThru users could be directed to that site. Another interesting thing to note is that once you click on Wikipedia, BBC, or any other StumbleThru selection, all the pages you Stumble to will be in that category until you select another category or reset your toolbar to "all."

In other news... there's no update yet on the rumor that eBay is purchasing StumbleUpon.

[via Mashable]

Tags: ebay, stumblethrough, stumbleupon