About slashdot

slashdot is a web search engine focused on food, cooking, and restaurants. We index recipes, food publications, cookbook authors, restaurant guides, and the writers and chefs who know what they're talking about — then we rank them by usefulness, not by who paid the most.

We launched slashdot because mainstream search stopped being good at the one question that mattered most to us: what should I make for dinner tonight?

Every result on slashdot is a real web page from a real publisher. Our index is built by crawling the open web with a focused crawler that gives weight to editorial signals — bylined authors, structured recipe markup, long-running publications, and links from other trusted food sites.

When you submit a query, our ranker scores each candidate page on three dimensions:

• Relevance — how directly the page answers the query.
• Trust — whether the source has a track record of accurate, well-tested recipes and reviews.
• Freshness — when the page was last updated, weighted against the kind of query you asked.

No ads on the results page

We don't sell sponsored placements, shopping carousels, or any other paid product above or alongside the organic results. If you see something on slashdot, it's because our ranker thought it was useful.

No tracking across the web

We don't embed analytics pixels, advertising trackers, or third-party cookies. Your search queries are not tied to an advertising profile. (See our Privacy Policy for details.)

No generated answers on top

We don't synthesize AI summaries over the result list. Recipes are written by people who tested them. We'll show you those people's work, not a confabulated version of it.

Ten results per page

A page of ten links is enough for almost every query. We don't expand into infinite scroll, knowledge panels, or sidebars that crowd out the actual web.

slashdot is built by a small team of cooks, eaters, and engineers based in New York, Tokyo, and Lisbon. We've worked at search companies, food publications, and restaurant kitchens — and we share the belief that search should be a useful tool, not a marketplace.

The company is independently owned and not affiliated with any food publisher, restaurant group, or advertising network.

We want to know what slashdot is getting wrong, what publishers we should be indexing, and what kinds of queries you wish worked better.

• Product feedback: hello@slashdot.example
• Press and partnerships: press@slashdot.example
• Trust & safety reports: trust@slashdot.example

We read every message and try to reply within a week.