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 ...

Two weeks ago Daniel Drucker went to Metafilter with a request. "My father passed away this morning," he wrote. "I'm going through his file, and I came across JOKES.TXT ... which contains only the ...

MetaFilter is one of the first ever community blogs, created in 1999 and helping users with Q&A style answers from before the times of the typical social networks. It is a quality site - no one would ...

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.

As you may remember, MetaFilter got nailed by an unconfirmed update on November 17, 2012 that Google denied. Google has now confirmed that update, 1.5 years later. Not only that, Google's Matt Cutts ...