Tools, tested
Most "best tool" pages are written by someone with a stake in the answer — usually a vendor ranking itself, occasionally an affiliate site ranking whoever pays most. The tables are always full, every cell confidently filled, and almost none of it was measured.
We do the opposite. We publish the method before we run anything, we test what can actually be tested, and where we could not measure something we leave the cell empty and say why.
Test results and recommendations are independent of monetization. A free or non-affiliate product must rank first whenever the prespecified evidence shows it performs best.
That rule is structural, not a promise. Affiliate availability, commission rates, and revenue potential are excluded from every score this site computes — the test results and the decision tools alike. Where a top-ranked product pays us nothing, the page says so.
What's here now
Research tools
Software for systematic reviews and evidence synthesis: a pre-registered screening benchmark, a pricing and feature tracker built from vendor pages, and a rule-based selector that shows you which tools were eliminated and exactly why.
Research briefs
A second, separate kind of page: source-trail research on claims people search for, not software. Same rule as everything else here — what's confirmed and what isn't stay separate, never blended into one confident paragraph. Twenty-four so far: is the Eiffel Tower taller in summer?, is a tomato legally a vegetable?, was Napoleon actually short?, did Vikings wear horned helmets?, does lightning strike the same place twice?, what is the deepest hole ever drilled?, how much does the internet weigh?, what is the most expensive object ever built?, is the Bermuda Triangle actually more dangerous?, can you outrun lava?, why is the QWERTY keyboard arranged that way?, do goldfish really have a three-second memory?, what animal is fastest over distance, not sprint?, did an apple really fall on Newton's head?, did Marie Antoinette really say "let them eat cake"?, did Napoleon's soldiers shoot the nose off the Sphinx?, was Uncle Sam really a real person named Samuel Wilson?, did knights really need a crane to mount their horse?, do you really swallow 8 spiders a year in your sleep?, do goldfish really grow to the size of their tank?, was there really a room called a vomitorium for vomiting?, are daddy long-legs the most venomous spiders in the world?, did ninjas really wear black?, did Einstein really fail math in school?
How we work
Three kinds of claim, kept deliberately separate and never blended into a single score: what we tested ourselves under a published protocol, what the published evidence says about things we could not test, and what we verified from primary sources such as vendor pricing pages, with the date we checked.
The reasoning is in how we test. If you can show that something here is wrong, we want to know — corrections are published as corrections, dated, with the previous value still visible.