Ghacks

Ghacks technology news is a technology blog created by Martin Brinkmann in October 2005. Its primary focus is on web browser and Windows tips, software, guides and reviews.

Ghacks
Type of businessSubsidiary
Type of site
blog
FoundedOctober 2005
Headquarters
Essen
,
Germany
OwnerSoftonic
Founder(s)Martin Brinkmann
Key peopleMartin Brinkmann, Editor-In-Chief
ServicesReviews / Recommendations
Employees5
URLwww.ghacks.net
Alexa rank 9,537 (As of 5 June 2019)[1]

An average of five posts are published each day of the week with topics ranging from Windows[2] and Linux operating system news to web browser tips (focusing on Firefox,[3] Google Chrome and Opera, online services like Gmail and Outlook.com, and general tech news and tips.

Popular posts include login related troubleshooting guides like Gmail[4] or Facebook.[5]

Ghacks Technology News has been recognized by Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Donationcoder.com and several other news sites and blogs for its coverage of free and open-source software.

The website received more than 400,000 visitors per day as of January 2017, and as of June 2019 has an Alexa traffic rank of 9,537 worldwide and 4,269 in the United States.[6]

Technorati listed Ghacks as a top 100 blog in both the general technology and info technology category, and of September 2013 it occupied position 21 in the Info technology category and 68 in the overall technology category on Technorati.[7]

Editorial staff

The editor in chief and founder is Martin Brinkmann. All authors that contribute articles for the site are listed in the[8] footer area on the website.

History

Ghacks[9] was created in 2005 as a development blog for a software called Google Hacks. Trademark issues made the founder of the site pick ghacks as the domain name. The software was soon thereafter discontinued and Ghacks turned from a development type blog to a software and online news oriented blog.

The site has held an annual Christmas Giveaway in the past three years, where commercial software is being given away to readers of the site.[10] This has since then been picked up by other tech blogs who are now also holding giveaways in the Christmas period.

In October 2019, Ghacks was acquired by Softonic.[11]

Awards and media recommendations

Ghacks Technology News has received recommendations by DL.TV,[12] Diggnation[13] and KNLS Radio's "Eye On The Web".[14]

Articles are often republished on sites such as Lifehacker,[15] The Blog Herald and Gizmodo.

References
  1. "Ghacks.net Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  2. "Windows News, Updates, tips and software". gHacks Technology News.
  3. "Firefox Archives - gHacks Tech News". gHacks Technology News.
  4. "Gmail login".
  5. "Facebook Login Page Help And Troubleshooting - gHacks Tech News". 17 October 2009.
  6. "Ghacks.net Traffic, Demographics and Competitors - Alexa". www.alexa.com.
  7. "gHacks technology news". Technorati. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
  8. "gHacks Technology News". gHacks Technology News.
  9. "Welcome to gHacks.net - gHacks Tech News". 3 October 2005.
  10. "Christmas Giveaway". gHacks.net. Archived from the original on 2011-11-09. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
  11. Brinkmann, Martin (October 7, 2019). "Ghacks has a new owner, and that is a good for everyone". Ghacks.
  12. "Cool Websites". DL.TV.
  13. "Diggnation On The Web". Diggnation. Archived from the original on 2005-08-06. Retrieved 2011-10-24.
  14. "Eye On The Web". KNLS Radio.
  15. Chen, Jason. "Instant Elevator Music Automatically Plays Whenever You Move Files Around".
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