GitHub - kagisearch/smallweb: Kagi Small Web

I paid for a lifetime subscription to Bear after discovering that this is a better place to spend my time scrolling. Thanks to Kagi Small Web for the introdu...

AI-generated writing feels different from personal written content. The less polished something reads, the more I trust it nowadays.

When every discussion feels flat, how do you fluff it up? The answer, to me, is to eat fewer pancakes.

Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web. Kagi Search instead works for you, the user, and not an advertiser paying for your attention....

Before algorithmic bias and advertising took over, search felt different. Kagi is trying to take us back — stripping out ads and SEO spam, and actively promoting the small web that most engines quietly suppress.

Introduction to the Erlang Observer app, on the Appsignal blog

Parimal Satyal is a designer and occasional writer interested in aviation, cultural exchange, languages, science, computers, the open web and the European Union. Neustadt.fr is his personal website with his writing, music and links.

As someone who values privacy and the open web, I’ve been fascinated by the growing movement away from centralised platforms toward more personal, user-controlled online experiences. What surprised me recently was discovering just how many people are embracing these concepts without even knowing their names. IndieWeb The IndieWeb is a community of people who own their websites and content rather than posting to third-party platforms (like Medium, Substack, etc). It’s built on principles like:

Software and non-software open-source work from GitHub, Codeberg, StackOverflow…

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

Small Web (or smallweb) is a term used in a 1999 article, a hosting service, two consulting services, a May 2020 article, a Aug 2020 blog post that describes a subset of IndieWeb principles, a HackerNews summary of Gemini, a curation of indie websites, most recently a Kagi Small Web initiative, and has variants smol web (smolweb) and smol net (smolnet).

A comprehensive retrospective of 57 created PRs, 139 reviewed PRs, and 21 new projects I developed in 2025

As I venture further out into the corners of the indieweb and fediverse, I find that traditional search engines are not providing a good means of discovery. Let's go back to the old ways of directories and web portals.

I wrote a browser extension to try and make finding random, independent websites more fun.

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

The small web is growing, and getting more active. Good news.

What is Small Web? While there’s no single, perfect definition, we like to define the Small Web as personal blogs, independent videos, webcomics, and other authentic spaces created for non-commercial purposes, usually for self-expression or community building. Basically, sites in the Small Web exist to share and entertain, not manipulate algorithms or boost corporate interests...

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

The open web is not disappearing because publishing has become impossible; it is disappearing because discovery is being absorbed into vendor specific information environments. Google is the central case because of its dominance in web search, but the pattern is broader: crawlers, indexes, operating systems, browsers, assistants, DNS resolvers, VPNs, advertising systems, and policy processes are converging into private gardens that present themselves as the web. Findability inside these gardens depends less on public availability than on compatibility with their measurement, monetization, legal, and editorial machinery. Once LLMs train on and retrieve through those filtered layers, exclusion no longer affects only search traffic; it shapes the corpus from which future answers are generated.

January 17, 2026

Small Web, the non-commercial part of the internet made by real people, has always been at the heart of what we do at Kagi. Today, we're adding to the Small Web experience with new browser extensions,...

As a part of our ongoing pursuit to humanize the web, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Kagi Small Web initiative. What is Kagi Small Web? To begin with, while there is no...

Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.