The Internet Is Filled With Too Many Reviewers and Not Enough Critics

Who doesn’t love sharing their opinions online about things they feel passionate about? Every person with a phone, TikTok account, or Yelp profile is automatically granted permission to share their review. Everyone wants to tell the world what’s good and what’s garbage. From movies to restaurants to the newest iPhone, the internet is constantly drowning …
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20 Google Reviews That Are A Five Star Experience

Certain places on the internet could inspire entire libraries of novels. One of those places is the review section on Google, and all the wild and (not so) wonderful stories that get told on it. While they can’t always be praised for their 100% accuracy, a casual browse of almost any venue’s Google reviews is …
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Why Doomscrolling is a Necessary “Evil,” Providing the Backbone for Informed Adults Navigating an Increasingly Murky World of Excess Information

Remember when the news was delivered straight to your door?  Your daily informational pamphlet came couriered to your front porch, carried dutifully in the bicycle basket of the boy who lives down the street. Dad read the newspaper at breakfast, Mom flipped through a magazine with coffee circles on the cover, and your siblings fought …
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25+ Tech Memes for People Whose Parents Think They’re Computer Geniuses

It’s a near-universal experience of millennials and below that whenever we help an elder with a simple tech problem, they act like we’re Steve Wozniak himself. I’m no coder, I just know how to press control-alt-delete. The folks in my generation grew up with tech all around us. We taught ourselves how to use the …
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28 Google Maps Gags and Blunders for Trolls of the Open Road

Google Maps is probably my favorite piece of technology that’s ever been invented. I would be completely helpless without it, as someone with a minimal innate sense of direction. I need Google Maps in my own neighborhood, on my own block. It’s also how I look for things around me that I might need, like …
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inkle lanza la aventura gratuita The Forever Labyrinth junto a Google Arts & Culture

inkle ha publicado The Forever Labyrinth gratis en navegadores en colaboración con Google Arts & Culture. El nuevo proyecto de los creadores de 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault y A Highland Song es una aventura roguelike que nos transporta a un misterioso laberinto repleto de cuadros y fotografías alojados en diversos museos. En The Forever Labyrinth …
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20+ Entertaining Google Reviews That Are as Funny as They Are Informative

It’s no secret that recent years have seen Google decline in quality. For several different reasons, it can be hard to get decent search results without tagging ‘Reddit’ at the end of many different search terms.  That said, one of its features that remains invaluable is the feature that allows you to review local businesses. …
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20 Google Maps Oddities and Glitches That Show the World is a Fascinating Place

If I found myself in some farfetched hypothetical situation where I had to choose only a couple of apps to keep on my phone, Google Maps would be one of them. I have a propensity for getting lost that makes it nothing short of a necessity (I would not have survived adulthood in the analog …
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Google comienza las pruebas para jugar a juegos online dentro de YouTube

Google ha comenzado a realizar pruebas de juegos online dentro de YouTube. En junio se filtró que la compañía de Mountain View, tras el fracaso de Stadia, planeaba introducir juegos online en su popular plataforma de vídeo. Ahora se confirma de forma oficial que los rumores eran ciertos. El sistema se llama Playables, y ofrece …
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Creative Googlers Play Hilarious Game Finding the Most Random Related Questions in Their Google Searches

For a while now, many online obsessives have observed that Google is in its flop era. Sometimes, not even the trusty «[query] + reddit» format will get you a result that is worth your time. There are a number of reasons behind the fact that the world’s favorite search engine is not what it was. …
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