So we’re up for this popularity contest in Arizona called “Ranking Arizona” that happens every year and ends in just a couple days (July 31st) and we wanted to see what Stumble Upon could do. Here’s the thing, it takes thousands of votes to win so we’re going to see if Stumble Upon users are up to the task.

You can vote twice per e-mail address and with as many e-mail addresses as you’d like; the more the merrier. Just remember to thumbs up this original article so that we can get this thing movin’.

Vote Here on Ranking Arizona for Liberty Interactive Marketing

We’re going to update the stats on this page as we get them in terms of how many people are clicking through to Ranking Arizona, but if we win we can get the numbers and see what Stumble Upon did down to the specific vote.

Oh yeah, don’t forget to leave a comment letting us know how many times you voted!

UPDATE: 248 visitors last night! Looks like the Ranking Arizona site is down right now, but that’s awesome!

Thanks to Tony Sirois for providing a helpful and quick tip post from information gathered at SMX Local & Mobile in San Francisco.

My hope for all the companies who rely on local business find this post.  While we include this in Liberty Interactive’s Internet Marketing services for SEO and PPC, and as I say time and time again, please be proactive in the success of your company online.

For a few quick tips on local search visit Tony’s post here.

Next time you ask your Internet Marketing company to to rank #1 for a particular keyword, think about this - 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs are out there - of course probably not all competing with you but you can bet on a few million or hundred thousand.  These aren’t even all the pages that Google indexes.  The Internet is infinite - a scary thought.  A universe of it’s own, more than an information superhighway I believe we have now entered space.
In 1998, Google first indexed 26 million pages. They’ve come along way since then, and the number of individual web pages [Googles says] is growing by several billion pages per day.

“Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it’d be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections.”

So next time you say “google it” faster than the speed of light, trillions of connections and petabytes of data are being sorted just to show you your search results.

Read the full article, thanks for this Google - pretty crazy stuff.