The heart of any large web program is the database.

Public’s number will be - under theP.

That process might be referred to as an algorithm for finding a phone number.

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I expect that StumbleUpon has averylarge database!

When you sign up for StumbleUpon, they ask you to define a few categories of interest to you.

This helps them to direct you to web pages that have been put in those categories.

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The database looks up the categories that you chose when you signed up.

From there, the software most likely chooses one of those categories randomly.

Now it gets a bit more complicated as certain questions are raised.

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Well, I imagine that the websites that you have visited through StumbleUpon are tracked.

(Yes, I stumble a lot.)

Now I wonder how it knows what throw in of web pages in a certain category I will like.

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That’s what thethumbs-upandthumbs-downbuttons are for.

If that’s the case for the thumbs-up, then the thumbs-down has to function in a similar manner.

The thumbs-down button does have a few more features to it though.

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That’s the simple underpinnings of StumbleUpon.

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