Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Kagi Small Web

kagi.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 223 posts

Re: Kagi Small Web

#201

Post by oxag3n »

zby wrote: post #172
freetonik wrote: post #20

On 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 ra…

I wish someone curated a list of sites that are llm written - but are not spam. Just to compare :)

[] /s

Re: Kagi Small Web

#202

Post by luisgvv »

graton wrote: post #86
ArtificeAccount wrote: post #31

I'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've been using it for over 2 years now. I'm quite happy with it. I like that I don't see adds and my searches aren't being used to target ads against me.

+1 searching anything non-business related is so good compared to the bloated AI + ads Google serves nowadays

Re: Kagi Small Web

#203

Post by freediver »

barbazoo wrote: post #155

Love Kagi and most things they do, don't get me wrong, but this is a bit ironic: https://kagi.com/smallweb/?url=https://pliutau.com/reading-l... > This page is auto-generated from Github Actions workflow that runs every day at night and fetches the 5 latest articles from each of my favorite blogs.

It would've been ironic if we had infinite resources, but this entire project is built and maintained by one person - me. If this is the only thing you found wrong with it - I'll pat myself on the back :)

ps. If you don't want to see this blog again in Small Web, jsut submit a PR to remove it - index of sites is a crowd-sourced effort. Cheers

Re: Kagi Small Web

#204

Post by freediver »

Venn1 wrote: post #136

Ah, this might explain the traffic from Kagi a week or so ago. I've been scratching my head over that one. I just checked, and my wee little blog is listed in smallweb.txt. Neat! Curious what goes on behind the Next Post and Show Similar buttons.

Next post is random. Show similar uses semantic search to find most similar indexed post. You also get the same effect if you 'like' a post.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#206

Post by ajkjk »

hamdingers wrote: post #92

I'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…

yeah i agree. the crux of it is no corporations / no ads / no astroturfing.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#207

Post by Barrin92 »

andrew_lettuce wrote: post #179
zby wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am looking for something that would filter for sites that rarely post but have good content. The number one problem with most of these systems is that everything favours frequent posting. Even if I do it manually, I cannot keep the tabs over many rarely posting sites - this is an obvious example of a problem that we delegate to computers. Favouring frequent posters creates incentives to do that even if quality wors…

The perverse thing here is that's exactly the opposite of how we've traditionally valued resources!

because we don't value them at all, literally. It's a tragedy of the commons, internet pollution is like air pollution, the polluters don't pay and there's no cost associated with overusing other people's attention.

Re: Kagi Small Web

#209

Post by sointeresting »

I tried kagi a year or so ago and and instantly cancelled my sub and asked for a refund, which they granted. The results for every search was jammed with AI and "listicles" and all this shit that made the results essentially impossible to parse for me, and I'm supposed to pay for the pleasure. Hard pass.
Post reply on HN