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If you like it and if you have a website, please join the network. It only takes uploading two files to your web server to set it up. In fact, you can host it on GitHub Pages or Codeberg Pages too. And you can link to any small website (not just blogs).
Details about how it works and how to set it up available here: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme
The first random page it returned to me was this — https://gaultier.github.io/blog/how_to_make_your_own_static_... — which was about building one's own static site generator, which I really liked. I did not realise when I closed that page how hard it would be to find it again, because, of course every new visit to Kagi returns a different page :-)
The small web is where genuine expertise lives. When I'm looking for a real opinion on a tool or a deep technical explanation, I almost never find it on the first page of Google anymore. It's all SEO-optimized content farm articles or AI-generated summaries. The actual expert wrote a blog post that's sitting on page 5.
The challenge is curation at scale. Manually identifying quality small web content works when the corpus is small, but maintaining quality as it grows requires either very good automated signals or a community-driven approach. Curious how Kagi balances this.
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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.
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…
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Only up to five of them, which is almost completely useless.
Blocking Pinterest is not completely useless.
Failing to block Pinterest and then also having no room for anything else is almost completely useless.
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It’s definitely not Kagi’s fault. The AI slop is simply taking effect and I feel sorry for them. I never expected them to match Google’s quality, but I was impressed with how close it was when I used it a few years ago.
Kagi used to use Google's search API. They discuss the current state of their index here: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
> Because direct licensing isn't available to us on compatible terms, we - like many others - use third-party API providers for SERP-style results (SERP meaning search engine results page).
So in one sense, yes, Kagi isn't quite Google, but in another sense, it very much still is.
But I did eventually stumble upon a post about two corgis, and another about medieval Europe...thingy. So it's not all bad.