Ask HN: The sites gaming Kagi Small Web are ruining the experience
2•chris_money202•2h ago
Do you agree? Today has been especially bad with sites triggering leaving the app to go to my default browser. It seems like they are doing it on purpose. Not really sure what you do to fix this because the moment Kagi puts in some sort of algorithm we’re then just chasing the inevitable of social media algorithm equivalents.
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squidhunter•1h ago
For being supposedly human curated, it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry. I have an agent with browser access running right now checking it and it's close to ~10%... Here's a sample of 10 examples that were found in literally the last two minutes...
squidhunter•1h ago
- "vermontdailychronicle.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "ziggit.dev" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "fastfrwrd.info" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "evchargingstations.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "escapecollective.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "findingada.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "fontsinuse.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "fortelabs.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "forum.f-droid.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...
- "42zero.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...