Kagi Small Web
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Small web results for 'hacker news' right now on Kagi Small Web”
“You might appreciate https://kagi.com/smallweb”
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“Personally, I use https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/ to feed my search engine / crawler.”
“https://kagi.com/smallweb/”
Caveats and dissent
“The scummy bit is that fucking topbar you can't get to go away.”
“it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry”
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“Kagi Small Web currently accepts only blogs, comics and YouTube channels”
“I have to assume this is little more than a marketing ploy by Kagi”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Just worked on adding categories to Kagi Small Web”
“It is also the first thing open in my browser every morning.”
Threads where it came up
- Kagi Small Web 6 mentions
- Kevin Boone: The "small web" is bigger than you might think 4 mentions
- RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web 2 mentions
- Tools Hacker News keeps asking for 1 mention
- Show HN: Swurf – Swipe through the real web 1 mention
- Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock 1 mention
Also written as Smallweb, smallweb. Data: kagi-small-web.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Small web results for 'hacker news' right now on Kagi Small Web”
“reminds me of Kagi's Small Web”
“You might appreciate https://kagi.com/smallweb”
“The scummy bit is that fucking topbar you can't get to go away.”
“Personally, I use https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/ to feed my search engine / crawler.”
“https://kagi.com/smallweb/”
“it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry”
You'd probably like the small web search on Marginalia then: https://marginalia-search.com/
“Kagi Small Web currently accepts only blogs, comics and YouTube channels”
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 it
Same feeling here Heavy Kagi user and the idea behind small web was appealing; but how its implemented don't click with me Their rules excludes an absolute gem like https://www.sheldonbrown.com/ which is, to me, the essence of what we could call the "small web". Each times the topic pops up, I try a few random ones and never found anything interesting.
“You may want to clarify that on https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb”
“Similar to Kagi's Small Web viewer, or StumbleUpon-style viewer”
“I found kagis to be too personal blog focused for my tastes.”
“Great idea.”
“I noticed that Kagi Small Web tends to lean towards more tech focused blogs.”
Right, but that basically works as a retro alternative to scrolling through social media. If you're looking for something specific, it's simultaneously true that there's a small web page that answers your question and that it's not on any "small web" list because the owner of the webpage never submitted it there, or didn't meet the criteria for inclusion. For example, I have several non-commercial, personal websites
“Does this use frames or iframe?”
“There are so many cool asteroids with people on them though, you can find them here: https://kagi.com/smallweb/”
“It's not ideal for a lot of people since it's still pretty high traffic”
“Is this much different than https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb ?”
“I have to assume this is little more than a marketing ploy by Kagi”
“that's a disappointingly short list and static approach”