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The people who ruined the internet

SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage. But are they to blame, or is Google?

Amanda Chicago Lewis
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The obsessive tormentor who made professors’ lives miserable

Erika Hayasaki
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The end of the Googleverse

For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question.

Ryan Broderick
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Why it’s impossible to compete with Google Search

A couple of ex-Googlers set out to create the search engine of the future. They built something faster, simpler, and ad-free. So how come you’ve never heard of Neeva?

David Pierce
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President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong?

‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission.

Makena Kelly
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The greatest tech books of all time

Verge Staff
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Goodnight Phone

Gina Wynbrandt
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Inside the AI Factory

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

Josh Dzieza
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The store is for people, but the storefront is for Google’s web crawlers

The SEO arms race has left the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.

Mia Sato
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The Kia Boys will steal your car for clout

A loose collective of teenage car thieves has stolen tens of thousands of Hyundai and Kia vehicles, often posting the results on YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok.

Taylor Dorrell
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The wild, true story of Chicago’s most infamous police impersonator

The “Kid Cop” duped the PD as a teenager — and that was just the beginning.

Matt Stroud
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Node by Node

Justine Calma
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How Google tried to fix the web — by taking it over

Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.

David Pierce
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Taken for a ride

Ian Frisch
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The Verge made a beautiful magazine, and you can preorder it now

The Homeland anthology collects some of our most ambitious investigative journalism, with stunning art and photography.

Verge Staff
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Inside Elon’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter

Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO.

Zoe Schiffer
, Casey Newton
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Features

The battle of the standards: why the US and UK can’t stop fighting the metric system

James Vincent
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Working Through It

Mia Sato
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Transpo

Henrik Fisker wants to sell you an EV you can actually afford

Patrick George
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The Verge Holiday Gift Guides 2022

Verge Staff
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How to Replace the Sky

Matt Huynh
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Continuous glucose monitor startups still have to prove their worth

Nicole Wetsman
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Tech

Matter’s plan to save the smart home

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
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The 20-year boondoggle

Amanda Chicago Lewis
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When Will Puerto Rico Have Power?

Josh Dzieza
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Transpo

Don’t expect your car’s safety technology to save you

David Zipper
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The Portland Van Abductions

Sarah Jeong
 and Sergio Olmos
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Inside one of the world’s first human composting facilities

Eleanor Cummins
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Asian America learns how to hit back

The desperate, confused, righteous campaign to stop Asian hate

Esther Wang
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The SpaceX fans who uprooted their lives and moved to Starbase

Worshippers of Elon Musk have flocked to the middle of nowhere in Texas to watch SpaceX’s attempts to build a space-worthy rocket — and to find friends

Loren Grush
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There’s no driving test for self-driving cars in the US — but there should be

Would a European-style regulatory system improve safety?

David Zipper
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The Humiliating History of the TSA

Darryl Campbell
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The Disaster Consultants

Nicole Wetsman
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How Twitter’s child porn problem ruined its plans for an OnlyFans competitor

Internal documents and Twitter employees reveal the need for massive investment to remove illegal content — but executives haven’t listened

Zoe Schiffer
 and Casey Newton
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The Most Surveilled Place in America

Gaby Del Valle
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Zuck turns up the heat

As Meta’s growth slows, Mark Zuckerberg is pushing even harder. Will his employees melt under the pressure?

Alex Heath
 and David Pierce
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The Great Fiction of AI

Josh Dzieza
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Accessibility Week

The hidden history of screen readers

For decades, blind programmers have been creating the tools their community needs

Sheon Han
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Netflix doesn’t want to hear it anymore

Tech workers at Netflix thought the company would always value their feedback. How naïve.

Zoe Schiffer
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Unsettled: the Afghan refugee crisis collides with the American housing disaster

Makena Kelly
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