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eBay looking to sell StumbleUpon

Little Rock, Arkansas — In a recent report from CNET, online auction and shopping giant eBay is looking to unravel the tie between them and StumbleUpon, a website discovery service.

As per a report published in TechCruch, eBay has employed Deutsche Bank to manage the sale of StumbleUpon, which eBay purchased just over a year ago at the price of $75 million.

For those that may be unfamiliar, StumbleUpon takes a look at the internet sites that users have visited and makes recommendations about other websites and videos that they may also enjoy.

According to the report released by TechCrunch, a source was cited who says that “eBay is hoping to use Deutsche Bank to land the ‘right buyer,’ though the asking price is unknown and uncertainty exists whether the online retailing giant will be able to get what it paid, or will have to run the proverbial blue light special.”

The report also noted that StumbleUpon saw a whopping 1.3 million visitors worldwide and 25 million page views during the month of July. Additionally, it was shown that one year prior, StumbleUpon welcomed 4.4 million visitors with 31 million page views (as per ComScore).

Currently, StumbleUpon has more than 6 million registered users.

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And the mighty begins to crumble...

I never really got into StumbleUpon, I'm more of a Digg person. It looked neat though, and did bring a few of my sites a lot of traffic.

You know all of digg's front page articles are done by the same several dozen people? This is because anyone who posts a digg post will have their's hidden by digg by default and the only way people find it is either if they are your best friend and search your profile daily. The only time something is visible publically on digg is on the front page and things need hundreds of diggs within 48 hours to get put there and in order to get frontpaged, you have to use 500 multiple digg accounts with different IPs each to do it.

many people know that stumble can be manipulated, so they take advantage of there service for the traffic unlike digg which seems far greater to manipulate.