Evil Week: Things You Can Do on the Dark Web That Aren’t Illegal
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games,…
Evil Week: Everything You Can Find Out About Someone From Public Information
You can learn so much about someone on the internet. Once something goes online, it’s virtually impossible to remove it (and overzealous attempts to bury something online can even lead…
Kagi Lets You Search the Internet Without Ads (but It Will Cost You)
When you think searching the internet, you undoubtedly think of Google (unless you’re the one person who thinks first of Bing). The search giant is ubiquitous because it’s fast, free,…
ChatGPT Could Soon Be the Better Way to Google
A new chatbot from OpenAI took the internet by storm this week, dashing off poems, screenplays and essay answers that were plastered as screenshots all over Twitter by the breathless…
“I Sometimes Get Confused Between…”: Google’s Word-Related Post Leaves Internet Amused
Google’s post prompted netizens to shared confusing words.Search engine giant Google recently asked internet users to share a word that they use regularly but search for it before using it…
Reddit Has Hidden Search Tools
Photo: Ink Drop (Shutterstock) Reddit is an invaluable internet community, but when it comes to search, it’s far from perfect. This network of communities is full of useful information, on-point…
How to Navigate Away From a Website That Disabled the ‘Back’ Button
Photo: Antonio Guillem (Shutterstock) It’s a typical day: You boot up your search engine of choice, enter a query you’re curious about, then click on a link that looks promising.…
DuckDuckGo CEO Refutes Search Result Tampering Allegations Amid Uproar
DuckDuckGo, a popular privacy-focused search engine, was recently called out in media reports for tampering with search results and purging independent media sources. This week, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg took…
The Difference Between the Dark Web and the Deep Web
Photo: TheCorgi (Shutterstock) Drugs, death, and depravity probably come to mind whenever you hear about the dark web. Or, is it the deep web? Is it both? You might find…
The Best of 404PageFound, and Other Primitive ’90s Websites That Still Exist
Photo: Vladimir Sukhachev (Shutterstock) The idea that once something hits the internet, it’s there forever, isn’t true. Things disappear from the internet all the time, from once-thriving online communities being…