Down for Everyone or Just Me
downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Settles whether a site is actually down or only down for you
rawsugar.com
Search results filtered through human tags instead of link counting.
Use Wikipedia instead
Gets you oriented on almost any subject, with the sources listed at the bottom. Quality varies enormously by topic and language, and it is a starting point rather than a citable source.
Open WikipediaRawSugar combined search with social tagging, on the theory that human categorisation would beat link-graph ranking for finding genuinely useful pages. It did work better in narrow topics, and it never came close to the volume of tagging required to work in general. Shut down in 2007.
Questions
No. RawSugar is no longer running and rawsugar.com does not serve the tool any more. Wikipedia is the closest current equivalent — it gets you oriented on almost any subject, with the sources listed at the bottom.
Yes. RawSugar sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
Shut down in 2007; the tag corpus was not preserved.
Alternatives
Same category or same task, ordered by how closely they overlap.
downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Settles whether a site is actually down or only down for you
lookup.icann.org
The registry's own WHOIS record for a domain, with no upsell
ipinfo.io
Tells you an IP address's owner, network and approximate location
microlink.io
Turns any URL into a screenshot, a PDF or structured metadata
pagespeed.web.dev
Scores a page on real-user Core Web Vitals and lab measurements
ssllabs.com
Grades a site's TLS configuration from A+ down to F and says why