MetaFilter is a news and discussion site dating back to the early years of the web. Founded in 1999, it’s attracting attention this week after coming forward about how a Google penalty has severely ...

Jessamyn West used to describe Metafilter as a social network for non-friends, a description belied in part by the tight-knit camaraderie that emerges in an online group of only a few thousand people.

Is Google broken? Or is your site broken? That’s the question any webmaster asks when she sees her Google click-throughs drop dramatically. It’s a question that Matt Haughey, founder of legendary ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Matt Haughey talks about why Facebook is like AOL in the ‘90s, and the best and worst developments in online ...

Your support goes further this holiday season. When you buy an annual membership or give a one-time contribution, we’ll give a membership to someone who can’t afford access. It’s a simple way for you ...

What Google gives it can take away. Startup founder Matt Haughey learned the strength of the search engine's power the hard way. He created the community blog MetaFilter in the late 1990s, grew it ...

There are few sites on the internet that continue to be wonderful years and years and years after they’re first created. And guess what, folks? Metafilter.com is definitely one of them. Where do I ...