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Re: Kagi Small Web

#11

This is quite interesting. I feel you should include content from blogs that publish less often than once a week - some of the best blogs post once in a blue moon and are still quite interesting.

> We gather new content, published within the last week, from a handpicked list of blogs and surface it in multiple ways.

I think the only condition is that the article is less than one week old.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#12

Kagi is worth every penny. Been using it for 6 months as my primary search engine. I think I have used the Google !g 10 or so times in that period maybe?

same, and realized in those cases that google results were still worse compared to whatever Kagi found.

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#13
Things like this are why I keep rooting for Kagi. I haven’t purchased a subscription yet because I’m still on my free 100 queries, but I will as soon as they run out. I really love this project!

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#14

Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed). This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other in…

Why do you let YouTube channels have advertisements/sponsors but require sites to be ad-free?

I understand the spirit of it and don't have any counter examples but seems like a bummer if someone has a nice indie blog but can't be added because they have a few ads or a sponsored post.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#18
Nice, but I can't figure out how to search it. The "Small Web" site linked to in the article just shows a number of links to Kagi articles.

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#19
Some Q:s

#1 What's the rationale behind favoring recent blog updates? In my experience, recent updates make the weakest search results, more prone to updates and link breakage, and overall tend to be of lower quality. I also wonder if promoting recent content might incentivize pumping out low-quality entries to increase the odds of being listed.

#2 In dabbling in the domain I've always ended up with an almost absurd skew toward technical programmer:y blogs. While there is a strong overlap between the cohort with a blog, and the cohort with programmer interests, I feel it would be more inviting to other groups if other interests were better represented. Is this something you've thought about, and if so, what do you think might be done?

Re: Kagi Small Web

#20
post #14

Vlad from Kagi here, thanks for posting. The RSS feed unexpectedly broke (edit: the feed is back up! [3]) just as we published the blog post, in the true spirt of "small web" :) Should be up in 30 minutes which will enable the site to function too (it uses the same feed). This has been a personal pet project of mine and I spent considerable time getting my hands dirty with the code, as the team was busy with other in…

Why do you let YouTube channels have advertisements/sponsors but require sites to be ad-free? I understand the spirit of it and don't have any counter examples but seems like a bummer if someone has a nice indie blog but can't be added because they have a few ads or a sponsored post.

Most of the focus was on the website curation. The YT channels were curated from the initial list of sources [1] and then automatically filtered by recency and subscriber count criteria.

That is to say that very little other effort was made to curate the YT channels and we expect the user community will contribute to edit the list.

Also I was under impression that all YouTube channels had ads, so that is why this was not considered as a seperate criterion.

[1] https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb#youtube-channels

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