On the same day that the news breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon for $40ish million, Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality into their Toolbar. Google (along with AOL) were reportedly in the running to acquire StumbleUpon until very recently.
April 19, 2007...10:09 am
Google Launches StumbleUpon Competitor
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April 20, 2007 at 3:59 am
[...] appears that Stumbleupon.com will be acquired by Ebay and not Google. In response, Google is launching a similar feature in their toolbar that suggests potentially interesting [...]