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A link aggregator about computing that anyone can read: smaller, quieter and more carefully tagged than the big tech news sites.
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Lobsters sits in Odd Search Engines under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Reverse image search, niche indexes, and search engines built on a premise other than popularity. What the web looks like when ranked differently.
Yes. Lobsters is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Lobsters without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Lobsters as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
An index deliberately built to favour text-heavy non-commercial pages. Ranking that punishes ad load instead of rewarding it.
Live map of which McDonald's ice cream machines are broken, built by repeatedly adding a sundae to a cart. Petty, rigorous, brilliant.
Search the web with the top million most popular sites removed. What is left is the internet nobody bothers optimising for.
A search engine that crawls the web with its own bot rather than renting results from the giants, and does not track who is searching.
Draw circles and arrows, press play, and your scribble runs as a working feedback-loop simulation.
The canonical placeholder text, plus the Cicero passage it was cut from and an explanation of what it says.
Thousands of curated palettes, from Game Boy green to 64-colour monsters, each downloadable in every format going.
Browser sprite editor built around palette discipline, with the specific constraints pixel artists keep asking for.
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