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Random browser

 Directs me to a randomly chosen website
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There must be millions of websites. I'd like to hop from one to the next when I'm bored. Much like the random link over there <----. My blog has a random button to see other blogs, why not the entire web?

Be surprised by what will turn up!

Or just sit there like an idiot filled with anticipation as you jump from boring to boring.

Should be done by google.

—zeno, Jul 09 2006

Random Website pointer http://www.randomwebsite.net/
Or, just type in some random IP addresses... [RayfordSteele, Jul 09 2006]

Mangle http://www.mangle.ca/
Google-API based [jutta, Jul 09 2006]

Anchorun https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1710/
There is also a firefox plugin for this. You press the button and it "automaticly browses the web" -It will click a random link on your current page, wait a specifyed ammount of time and repeat. [Cerium, Jul 09 2006]

Slashdot.org http://science.slas...id=06/01/16/0558244
Web Users Judge Sites Instantly [Inyuki, Jul 10 2006]

StumbleUpon http://www.stumbleupon.com/
Well and truely baked [danpat, Jul 11 2006]

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       These exist.
—RayfordSteele, Jul 09 2006
   

       Thanks guys, this will keep me busy for hours.
—zeno, Jul 09 2006
   

       He gets a vote for, because zeno didn't know these existed before he wrote it. He should, however, look on the web for things relating to an idea next time. Not randomly.
—Corona, Jul 09 2006
   

       If it was truly random, you could use it for an investigation into what percentage of the interweb is porn. Now that would be a good investigation.
—dbmag9, Jul 09 2006
   

       I have heard that it takes only 50 milliseconds (see Slashdot link) to jugdge a site, so, what do you think about creating a browser, with which you could view 20 sites per second?
—Inyuki, Jul 10 2006
   

       [dbmag9] www.randomwebsite.net filters out the porn sites. However, I'm sure those statistics exist out there somewhere.
—MoreCowbell, Jul 11 2006
   

       Why? And baked, which is scary. Fishbone.
—baconbrain, Jul 13 2006
   

       what [danpat] said, StumbleUpon is by far and away the brand leader in this game, you can stumble less randomly too, for instance stumbling between sites which your friends liked.   

       I'd liked del.icio.us to do this too.
—neilp, Jul 13 2006
   

       And I'd like a pony.
—jutta, Jul 13 2006
   

       And thank you very much for stumble upon.
—zeno, Jul 18 2006
   
      
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