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New tab = A movie to watch + Reading List

Entertainment — Discover a good movie to watch each time you open a new tab [Web App, Chrome Extensions, Product…
Entertainmentest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
+4.8
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse momentum is positive over 30 days (+4.8). Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 94% of 17 probesavg response 2493 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
chromewebstore.google.com
edge
direct origin
server
ESF
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

New tab = A movie to watch + Reading List's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Hand spinner simulatorentertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Break The Clouds (Uplifting Corona News)entertainmentsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Likecreeperentertainmentsimilar100%— unverified
Emoji Dayothertag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Keep My Star Wars Safeproductivitytag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
IPO Calendarfinancetag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Happo the happiness hippopotamushealthtag-overlap100%40.00.0● live
Speedy Readieentertainmentsimilar100%40.0+32.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 10:04Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF3504alive
2026-08-18 12:58Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF1756alive
2026-08-10 01:09Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF1524alive
2026-08-08 05:45Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2174alive
2026-08-05 18:08Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF1868alive
2026-07-30 17:21Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2135alive
2026-07-18 15:16Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2210alive
2026-07-16 09:25Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2469alive
2026-07-09 10:47Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2239alive
2026-07-04 04:00Z10006timeout
2026-06-23 13:25Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF282alive
2026-06-21 21:42Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF815alive
2026-06-20 19:49Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF1241alive
2026-06-19 13:30Z200chrome.google.com → chromewebstore.google.comESF2675alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · New tab = A movie to watch + Reading List · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/new-tab-a-movie-to-watch-reading-list · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.