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Kagi Small Web
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#192Kagi lost focus. I pay for their search and I’m getting close to giving up. I’ve noticed several times that Google Search gets more relevant results for the same query. On top of having a better search AI.
Whimsical detours like this feels like they’re operating aa early Google minus the killer product.
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#193I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…
Off topic, but ref "I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for" It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... (Could even be restricted based on viewport - I don't think it's that crazy of an idea) I kn…
There's an old Mac app that tried to do it. History hound. It sometimes worked
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#194I'm a Kagi search/assistant user and advocate but the "small web" product is a frustrating misnomer. To me the small web is any little website that was created to be interesting rather than to sell me something. That includes stuff like neocities, "shrine" type sites, single purpose sites, fandom portals, web experiments, etc. Unfortunately Kagi's definition of "small web" is: blog or webcomic. You must have an RSS f…
Well, it's much harder for them to add content from websites that don't have a feed.
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#195Kagi lost focus. I pay for their search and I’m getting close to giving up. I’ve noticed several times that Google Search gets more relevant results for the same query. On top of having a better search AI. Whimsical detours like this feels like they’re operating aa early Google minus the killer product.
The commits in their repo for this project goes back multiple years. I don't believe it is a whimsical detour.
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Off topic, but ref "I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for" It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... (Could even be restricted based on viewport - I don't think it's that crazy of an idea) I kn…
>It's funny to me that (to my knowledge) no browser (mainstream?) implement this functionality yet. Seems like a no brainer to index what the user have actually seen... The answer to this is complicated. Both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge actually implement this. Behind the scenes, both will upload your browser history to the cloud. You can see it in network packet captures. It's implemented in the browser for the…
Thank you! I was wondering why bookmarks are treated so poorly by browser, as if they are forced to include them but hate them with a passion.
That explains it. I'm a bit of a bookmark hoarder to the point where I have a local html file that holds and displays all my bookmarks and I've got that page set as my default.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. I got an influx of bots from Singapore (around 50 visits per day) and in figuring out what's up with traffic, I noticed kagi as a reference for the first time. Weird times. People are training their LLMs on my content yet people are still interested in technical content written by a human being. So I guess you just keep writing, right? I find it disheartening to know I'm training LLMs but I think I'm more encou…
My attitude with writing has been : "Write to the void". There is nothing else to do.
Yep, insert the "always has been" meme. I learned from my early blogging that finding something that was popular just ended up having me chase that high again, instead of the things I wanted to be writing. True of every platform before and since.
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Expert/auteur websites like Sheldon Brown's (or, one of my favorites, Ask Aaron https://runamok.tech/AskAaron/FAQ.html ) are the pinnacle of what's possible with the small web. Today this kind of info ends up in an ad-ridden hosted wiki or locked away in an unsearchable discord. There's also novelties like https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ , this probably hasn't been updated in a decade but that makes…
Sheldon Brown's content is great, but is it ironic that the first thing you see on his site is a Google banner ad? Understandably, he'd like to earn money on his content and I see no problem with that. But for me to visit his site and have Google add yet another tracking event to their "interest pile" about me (I guess i'm in the market for bikes now?) is a bit off putting. He can't be making more than a few bucks a…
As the author is dead, I'm sure the money goes towards site hosting fees.
Re: Kagi Small Web
#200I've been using the Kagi search engine for months now and I'm not impressed. I bought into it because there were a lot of posts saying that it was "just like old Google" but this has not been my experience. It's the same as new Google, you can type in what you're looking for exactly and you'll get random sort-of related websites. I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google,…
> I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for.
You should try that on more niche user-centric search engines, like https://altpower.app
So glad I discovered it!