https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallweb.tx...

There is also Small Comic:

https://kagi.com/smallweb/?comic

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallcomic....

And Small YouTube:

https://kagi.com/smallweb/?yt

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/main/smallyt.txt

Also somehow if they are clever, they could use this for those translation system they are using, but please let us select our own language without feeding automatic translation like youtube does).

You can choose similar sites by index.

But what are the criterion to have your site listed here, or how it will prevent this from just becoming a massive gamified advertising index, or anything more about "why these?" is not obvious to me.

Can anyone explain what is special about these sites specifically, or where this project is going?

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 random listing of blogs [1] or a random listing of posts from all blogs [2]. Feeds and posts are indexed, so full-text search works across all blogs. When possible and permitted by robots.txt, text is scraped for searching, so even if some text is omitted in the RSS feed by the author, search should work.

Though I do plan to implement a similar "view one random post at source" kind of view, soon.

UPD: Feel free to submit a blog, including your own! [3]

[1] https://minifeed.net/blogs/by/random

[2] https://minifeed.net/global/random

[3] https://minifeed.net/suggest

Perhaps I'm yelling into the void here, but what would be great is when first landing at kagi.com/smallweb, the url query parameter would be somehow set, as it is when "Next Post" is clicked.

Previous post 7-sept-2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420281 185 comments. And https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39476015 23-feb-2023 36 comments

Jokes aside, it's really nice and I can totally see becoming addictive. Kudos to Kagi team for an other user oriented product. (as a side note, I am using Kagi daily and i didn't know about this tool)

I remember when you could half-remember a comment from a website, type that into Google, and get taken to the article you were looking for. That was back in like 2010. To me that's the old, and useful, search engine that I want.