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No algorithm
The destination is pseudo-random. We don't learn anything about you, we don't filter results against a profile, we don't steer you back to where you "should" return.
What is this experiment
A reminder against optimization.
We live in an optimized web — algorithms serving back what we already knew we wanted. Serendipity does the opposite: it breaks the bubble and hands you a fragment of the internet you would never have searched for. No profiling, no return on investment. Just a door and the curiosity to open it.
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No profiling
The passage doesn't know who you are and doesn't ask: the destination doesn't depend on you, on where you come from or on how many times you pressed. The page carries the same cookieless, anonymous statistics and the same ads as the rest of the site, and the jump carries no referrer and no parameters.
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A door, not a funnel
We open the door and you leave. No upsell, no retargeting. If you like it, come back; if not, that's fine too.
What lies behind the passage
Many doors, no map.
There isn't a single door behind the passage: on every jump our server draws one at random, with different weights, asks it for an address and hands it to you as is — no added parameters, no referrer, no tab opened behind your back. Which door opened, we won't tell: that's the fun part. If one doesn't answer in time we move on to the next, and the last one cannot fail.
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Drawn at random
No door always wins and none learns from you. Two jumps in a row can land in worlds far apart: a personal page from the nineties, a hand-kept archive, an entry you would never have searched for.
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Tested before it opens
Before handing you an address we try it: if the site is dead, parked or for sale we discard it and draw another. The passage leads to no dead ends and always keeps a few destinations ready.
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Curated by hand
Part of the destinations is a list we picked ourselves — digital curiosities, archives, museums and plenty of Italian corners — re-checked every three months: whatever dies goes, whatever deserves it gets in.
The passage won't serve the same destination twice in a short while, but the memory is its own, not yours: it doesn't know who pressed and keeps nothing about you.