Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch
2026-04-02 05:09 UTC
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@teohhanhui@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 10:01
This Kagi? Between the absolute blase attitude towards privacy, the 100% dedication to AI being the future of search, and the completely misguided use of the company’s limited funds, I honestly can’t see Kagi as something I could ever recommend to people. d-shoot.net/kagi.html
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@vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2026-04-02 05:35
So, like a baby Yahoo! directory? I wonder just how long it will stay relevant and how they determine if the content comes from a human. So far I've been accused of being a bot several times, clearly reliably detecting humans is beyond the capability of .. humans.
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@tirateimas@lemmy.pt 2026-04-02 08:45
This is actually pretty nice. I guess we will see similar projects popping up in the near future.
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@vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-04-02 05:31
"Small web" is how usually Gopher, Gemini and such protocols and resources accessible via them are described. I knew I was right to suspect Kagi, trying to hijack an established name from an important phenomenon is one of the most certain red flags. In general hijacking of names is one of the dangers very specific to our modern era and not really a problem before the Internet. And yes, they are doing just that.
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@AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2026-04-02 18:41
I totally recommend just clicking through random pages on there for a good 10 minutes or so. You'll be surprised at how many random, cool, interesting things you find that you'd probably never see otherwise in a million years. (also an AMAZING place to find small blogs to add to your RSS reader of choice) They feed a lot of this into their main search index if you pay for Kagi search too, so a lot of these sites will appear higher than they would on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc, if their content is relevant. Especially fediverse sources.
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 16:39
Thus including the type of people who screwed everything up in the first place
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@Bazell@lemmy.zip 2026-04-02 20:43
Nice.
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@aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 2026-04-02 06:08
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 17:09
Their 'Research' AI is pretty decent too. I can get to the same ends eventually, but I can't read and digest 25 different pages and then launch another 10 follow-up searches in 15 seconds. It's summarizing and not simply inferencing so the hallucination rate is acceptably low and it also cites the sources so you can click a footnote to fact-check any important details. I self-host most things, but I can't self host a search engine. I much prefer paying monthly than having to fight the eternal battle against tracking and ads.