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Re: Kagi Small Web

#101

Post by gspencley »

gnyman wrote: post #86
gnyman wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, second that. Happy paying user for bit over a year now (and was in the beta before that). It feels a bit like how it felt discovering Google back when AltaVista was still a thing.

...because I wasn't sure if this was just nostalgia or fake memories so I went down the rabbit hole of trying to refresh my memories about why I switched from AltaVista to Google I had some memory of AltaVista being full of SEO (as I recall it was mostly a keyword search engine) spam. And that was probably true, but I also came across this Quora page https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Altavista-search-engine-lose-g... and…

> instead it feels like the main goal is showing you as much ads as possible and preferably getting you to accidentally click on one.

This is an interesting observation given Google's roots. Although it is a different era, where we have ad blockers now, it would be really weird and neat if Google were displaced by a new search engine that did literally the exact same thing Google did in 1998: clean, no-bullshit page that just gives you search results + page-rank.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#102

Post by slushh »

arboles wrote: post #57

> These notes will vanish in about a week as we cycle in new content - emphasizing the fleeting, imperfect nature of the small web. Kagi could just admit they don't want to moderate notes or store them permanently. No need to push down the small web, because a lot of small sites preserve their content. I get that Kagi probably has data indicating the reality of how often sites down, but it seems from my experience th…

Where do those notes appear?

It would be nice if Kagi Small Web would have an ActivityPub interface so that the most appreciated sites of a day could be added to a timeline on mastodon or lemmy.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#103

Post by sotix »

I would love to have my website added to the list because I block all crawlers in my robots.txt, but it looks like I’m not allowed to submit my own website. Is there a way to go about having it added? It would be great to be part of kagi search results but don’t want to be scraped by Google, ChatGPT, or the next group, so I found it easiest to block everything.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#105

Post by digging »

skyyler wrote: post #60
tstrimple wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I end up regularly going over the "Pro" tier of searches a month (partially because I accidentally search all the time, but also I'm heavy search-engine user) is a bit of a letdown. I hadn't considered this aspect of Kagi yet. I'm not a subscriber at this point, but I am strongly considering it. But I use search instead of typing domain names directly to avoid the typo phishing style attacks. I wonder how much "art…

Make better use of bookmarks and you won't need to use a search engine as a first-line phishing defense. Just a suggestion. Search engines do supply their results with a level of confidence, and you're not wrong to use them like that.

This is my approach too, I've found that it's quite easy to bookmark pages liberally and then I can just locally search my bookmarks from the URL bar.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#106

Post by digging »

gspencley wrote: post #101
gnyman wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...because I wasn't sure if this was just nostalgia or fake memories so I went down the rabbit hole of trying to refresh my memories about why I switched from AltaVista to Google I had some memory of AltaVista being full of SEO (as I recall it was mostly a keyword search engine) spam. And that was probably true, but I also came across this Quora page https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Altavista-search-engine-lose-g... and…

> instead it feels like the main goal is showing you as much ads as possible and preferably getting you to accidentally click on one. This is an interesting observation given Google's roots. Although it is a different era, where we have ad blockers now, it would be really weird and neat if Google were displaced by a new search engine that did literally the exact same thing Google did in 1998: clean, no-bullshit page…

Unfortunately that's pretty improbable due to Google's dominance and the changes in the tech landscape. When non-computer-literate people are making Google searches every day on their phones because it's pre-installed as the default, that's a difficult fight to win.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#107

Post by Gud »

Thanks a lot for this. I really appreciate kagi and the work you put in to it.

Now more than ever do we need a user friendly search engine.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#108

Post by sshine »

palmer_fox wrote: post #93
freediver wrote: post #2

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…

The more I uses Kagi (paid) the more I am feeling sad for the possibility that it might go away if it doesn't get more traction. For me you represent an incredible accomplishment: the first search engine that gives better results than Google, respects privacy, offers customization and so much more. Thank you.

Kagi is the best.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#109

Post by carlosjobim »

digging wrote: post #105
skyyler wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Make better use of bookmarks and you won't need to use a search engine as a first-line phishing defense. Just a suggestion. Search engines do supply their results with a level of confidence, and you're not wrong to use them like that.

This is my approach too, I've found that it's quite easy to bookmark pages liberally and then I can just locally search my bookmarks from the URL bar.

Doesn't your history already fill in this? Why the need to bookmark?

Re: Kagi Small Web

#110

Post by carlosjobim »

digging wrote: post #106
gspencley wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> instead it feels like the main goal is showing you as much ads as possible and preferably getting you to accidentally click on one. This is an interesting observation given Google's roots. Although it is a different era, where we have ad blockers now, it would be really weird and neat if Google were displaced by a new search engine that did literally the exact same thing Google did in 1998: clean, no-bullshit page…

Unfortunately that's pretty improbable due to Google's dominance and the changes in the tech landscape. When non-computer-literate people are making Google searches every day on their phones because it's pre-installed as the default, that's a difficult fight to win.

They will stop using Google because of the disastrous quality. The question is if they'll pay for another search engine or just search within Instagram, or install an AI agent.
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