Some context would be helpful
Here is a link to the folks at Kagi talking about this
Kagi Small Web
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#12So, basically, a random site from their index of ~30,000 sites.
You can choose similar sites by index.
But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prevent this from just becoming a massive gamified advertising index, or anything more about "why these?" is not obvious to me.
Can anyone explain what is special about these sites specifically, or where this project is going?
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#13A bit off topic, but I noticed I hardly ever use search anymore. It's just google.com/ai in 99% of cases. I believe in the future, search engines must go in this direction ..
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#14StumbleUpon?
First thing I thought... honestly we should bring it back anyway
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#15Kagi wants to exist in a world that doesn't need it anymore
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#16StumbleUpon?
There are still a lot of alternatives:
Newsletter version if you prefer: https://randomdailyurls.com
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#17Great idea. Index is based on submitted sites: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx... There is also Small Comic: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?comic https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallcomic.... And Small YouTube: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?yt https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallyt.txt
And Small HN:
https://hcker.news/?smallweb=true
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618714 (Ask HN: Share your personal website, 2414 comments)
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#18So, basically, a random site from their index of ~30,000 sites. You can choose similar sites by index. But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prevent this from just becoming a massive gamified advertising index, or anything more about "why these?" is not obvious to me. Can anyone explain what is special about these sites specifically, or where this project is going?
The criteria are here: https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#small-web
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#19StumbleUpon?
Personally my favorite spiritual successor to stumbleupon has been cloudhiker.net. I found kagis to be too personal blog focused for my tastes. I love that kagi is doing so much of this out in the open though. There are a surprising amount out there: https://blog.woblick.dev/en/2025/best-stumbleupon-alternativ...
Hi, creator of Cloudhiker here. Thanks for mentioning my site! Let me know if you have any questions, issues or ideas.
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#20On a similar note, I maintain and grow a manually curated collection of personal blogs with valid RSS feeds: https://minifeed.net/blogs
The criteria is simple: human-written (as much as I can validate myself), in English (for now), with valid RSS feed, and not a micro-blog (so, more than just feed of links or short tweet-like messages).
Similar to Kagi's Small Web viewer, or StumbleUpon-style viewer: you can get a random listing of blogs [1] or a random listing of posts from all blogs [2]. Feeds and posts are indexed, so full-text search works across all blogs. When possible and permitted by robots.txt, text is scraped for searching, so even if some text is omitted in the RSS feed by the author, search should work.
Though I do plan to implement a similar "view one random post at source" kind of view, soon.
UPD: Feel free to submit a blog, including your own! [3]
[1] https://minifeed.net/blogs/by/random