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.

This article is about the blog by Martin Brinkmann. For the book about Google, see Google Hacks.

Ghacks

Type of business	Subsidiary
Type of site	blog
Founded	October 2005
Headquarters	Essen , Germany
Owner	Softonic
Founder(s)	Martin Brinkmann
Key people	Martin Brinkmann, Editor-in-chief
Services	Reviews / Recommendations
Employees	5
URL	www.ghacks.net

Coverage

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

An average of five posts are published each day of the week with topics ranging from Windows^[1] and Linux operating system news to web browser tips (focusing on Firefox,^[2] 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^[3] or Facebook.^[4]

Ghacks Technology News articles have been republished by sites such as Lifehacker,^[5] Gizmodo,^[6] DonationCoder.com, and other sites due to its coverage of cyber security, troubleshooting and FOSS.^{[7][8][9][6][10][11][excessive citations]}

History

Ghacks was created in 2005 as a development blog for a software called Google Hacks.^[12] 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.^{[citation needed]}

In April 5, 2008, Grand Effect blog advertising network, co-founded by Sarah Perez and David Peralty, included eXtra for Every Publisher, gHacks, ParisLemon, SheGeeks, Sarah in Tampa, and The Last Podcast!.^{[citation needed][importance?]}

From 2008 to 2011, the site held an annual Christmas Giveaway, with commercial software given away to readers.^{[13][14][importance?]}

The website received more than 400,000 visitors per day as of January 2017,^{[citation needed]} and as of June 2019 has an Alexa traffic rank of 9,537 worldwide and 4,269 in the United States.^[15]

In October 2019, Ghacks was acquired by Softonic.^[16]

Reception

Ghacks Technology News has received recommendations by DL.TV,^[17] Diggnation,^{[18][not specific enough to verify]} and KNLS Radio's Eye on the Web with Mary Westheimer.^{[19][failed verification]}

Technorati listed Ghacks as a top 100 blog in both the general technology and info technology category; in September 2013, it occupied position 21 in the Info technology category and 68 in the overall technology category on Technorati.^[20]