Laughing Squid

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Laughing Squid

Laughing Squid laughingsquid.com

a daily dose of unique and curious things

Wikidata: American art and culture blog

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

In English

02 · Privacy

What Laughing Squid tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

1. 01
   Jason Kottke kottke.org English No trackers

   kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

   Jason Kottke's daily links and commentary on art, science, technology, design, film, and culture since 1998.

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2. 02
   Boing Boing boingboing.net Top 10K English 6 trackers

   Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things

   Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...

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3. 03
   Mental Floss mentalfloss.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

   Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More

   Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.

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   Cheezburger cheezburger.com English 1 tracker

   Home - The Big Cheezburger Network - Made from the finest of internets - Cheezburger

   You get a Cheezburger, and YOU get a Cheezburger. EVERYONE GETS A CHEEZBURGER. The original internet funny site.

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   Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English No trackers

   Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas

   Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.

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   Stereogum stereogum.com English No trackers

   Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More

   The world's best music blog.

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7. 07
   BuzzFeed buzzfeed.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

   BuzzFeed

   BuzzFeed has breaking news, vital journalism, quizzes, videos, celeb news, Tasty food videos, recipes, DIY hacks, and all the trending buzz you’ll want to share with your friends. Copyright BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.

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   Mashable mashable.com Top 10K English 5 trackers

   Mashable

   Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.

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   Atlas Obscura atlasobscura.com Top 10K English

   American online magazine and media company

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    VICE vice.com Top 10K English 8 trackers

    VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.

    VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.

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    Today I Found Out todayifoundout.com English 3 trackers

    Today I Found Out | Learn Interesting Facts Every Day

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12. 12
    Search Engine Roundtable seroundtable.com English 3 trackers

    Search Engine Roundtable ::: The Pulse Of The Search Marketing Community

    A well-rounded view on search engines and search engine marketing from five segments of the Web population represented by senior members of the major SEO/SEM forums on the Internet.

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    Upworthy upworthy.com English 4 trackers

    The Best In Us - Upworthy

    At Upworthy, we make the best in humanity more visible so it becomes more possible. ✨ Together with our community, creators, and partners, we create stories, ideas, and experiences that change how people see themselves and the world, and inspire them to add more good to it.

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    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

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    ZDNET zdnet.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET

    see all latest

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    NME nme.com English 2 trackers

    NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News

    NME brings you the latest music and pop culture news and reviews, along with videos and galleries, band features, concert tickets, magazine, radio and more.

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    Thrillist thrillist.com English 4 trackers

    Thrillist - Adventure is always around the corner.

    Thrillist is an online media website covering travel, experiences, and local neighborhoods. Thrillist was founded in 2004 by Ben Lerer and Adam Rich. Thrillist covers national and international travel, news, and, as of 2023, 18 cities across the United States.

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    Refinery29 refinery29.com English No trackers

    Refinery29 UK

    Where style meets substance - fashion, entertainment, news, and wellness daily

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    Gizmodo gizmodo.com Top 10K English 4 trackers

    Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

    Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.

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    Polygon polygon.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More

    Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Laughing Squid’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Laughing Squid uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Laughing Squid adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.