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  • AI usage

    The goal of this project is to improve the connectivity and discoverability of real, human authors of web content. So it’s probably important to talk about AI and its use on the Outer Web. AI …

  • Probes

    We’re continuing to develop our set of indieweb discovery features. Our first approach, Navicomputer, asks the user to paste the text of a webpage and let us retrieve similar content. This was …

  • AI descriptions

    Anyone who has been rickrolled or jumped through hyperspace to a planet that has been destroyed by a giant laser will tell you this: it’s nice to look before you leap. Since the Outer Web is …

  • 2030

    Dogfooding and discovery I was verifying the Outer Web link for Web 2.0 Sucks! and stumbled upon its neighbor Manifesto by V.H. Belvadi. This, in turn, led me to Belvadi’s lastest post about …

  • Web Discovery

    Entrypoints to the authentic web If you’re here, we hope you’ve checked out Explore or its more orderly cousin Explore Sorted. There are a few other great indieweb discovery projects, here …

  • Exploration mode

    We created the Outer Web to help web contributors find and link each other and, in doing so, created a large (and growing) galaxy of webpages. There are a lot of great things that can be done with …

  • How to link the web using Navicomputer

    If you’re a blogger or web publisher and see interesting links in Navicomputer search results, consider adding those links to your own content. For example, here are some results from the text …