StumbleUpon, the best way to discover new content on the Internet, launches a completely updated and redesigned version. With this update, come many new features and functions designed to make StumbleUpon simpler, searchable, and more social–improving the quality of results and the overall user experience. StumbleUpon is the world’s largest web discovery engine, delivering over 450 million user recommendations each month.

Highlights of the new version include:

Simpler

• Anyone can receive personalized recommendations directly from the StumbleUpon homepage–from any computer, no install or registration required
• Simple, sleek site design and enhancements to the StumbleUpon add-on, make it more user friendly and make it easier for new users to begin discovering great websites

Searchable

• The same intelligence used to power “Stumbles” now applied to search–personal preferences along with collaborative human opinions help deliver the most personalized and relevant search results
• Search is now available on every StumbleUpon page, allowing users to search through their own favorites, others’ favorites, or exclusively through friends’ favorites

More Social

• Improved Friend search makes it easier to find the people you know on StumbleUpon and meet others with similar interests
• See recommendations from people you know highlighted in search results and easily Stumble or search within their favorite sites

“Our vision for StumbleUpon was simple–create a site where you could click a button and discover interesting, personalized and highly relevant websites,” said Garrett Camp, StumbleUpon CEO. “We are now combining the power of discovery with search–and offering another way for people to access over 35 million user-endorsed websites.”

“It’s great to see the original founders’ vision reflected in this release, StumbleUpon’s first major product release since its independence from eBay,” said Ram Shriram, StumbleUpon investor and board member.

StumbleUpon is the Internet’s largest social discovery site, with 8.5M users, 11B ‘Stumbles,’ and an index of over 35M of the best sites on the web. StumbleUpon is backed by company founders, Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, as well as a number of well-known investors including Ram Shriram of Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners, and August Capital.

Source: StumbleUpon