Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Boing Boing
The 20 closest technology culture blog alternatives to Boing Boing, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 18 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Boing Boing? The closest matches are Gizmodo, Habr and The Verge. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Boing Boing
Boing Boing boingboing.net
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...
Wikidata: blog
Summary by Claude
A group blog publishing short posts on technology, gadgets, science fiction, comics, odd internet finds, and left-leaning political commentary, plus sponsored deals through an affiliated shop.
- Who it’s for
- General readers interested in tech and culture
- Business model
- Advertising and affiliate commerce
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Boing Boing’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Boing Boing
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Boing Boing, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Very close cos 0.931 - 02
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.925 - 03
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close cos 0.924 - 04
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close cos 0.921 - 05
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Very close cos 0.920 - 06
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.918 - 07
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.915 - 08
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close cos 0.918 - 09
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close cos 0.917 - 10
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close cos 0.917 - 11
Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Comscore
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
Very close cos 0.916 - 12
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Very close cos 0.916 - 13
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.915 - 14
CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news
Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!
Very close cos 0.914 - 15
PCWorld
PCWorld helps you navigate the PC ecosystem to find the products you want and the advice you need to get the job done.
Very close cos 0.913 - 16
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.912 - 17
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.912 - 18
English-language computer magazine
Very close cos 0.911 - 19
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.906 - 20
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.
Very close cos 0.907
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to boingboing.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Boing Boing uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Boing Boing is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Meta Pixel page source: connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:204.11.50.128/28 include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazonse…
- Cookie consent
- Quantcast Choice page source: cmp.quantcast.com
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56323ab7cd7b243-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:204.11.50.128/28 include:servers.mcsv.net include:amazonse…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS ryan.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: 24ECEF65525D0D014895DB1255B1A9D0
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: 2Z2CdDZoCt3kedjrHnPrbA3HjYnoXwwgy2pjFo552ws
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=ujgb22qbsx6y12bclz0wv9mtnlccst
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Boing Boing adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Meta Business Suite 12/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 11/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on boingboing.net 10/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Google Analytics 7/20
- nginx · not on boingboing.net 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on boingboing.net 6/20
- GlobalSign · not on boingboing.net 6/20
- Amazon SES 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on boingboing.net 5/20
- Comscore 4/20