that has been there for a while
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2026
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You mean, you just noticed a feature that has been there for awhile?
I like what Kagi are doing, even though I don't pay for their search engine. I've been enjoying browsing the Kagi Small Web portal recently.
You can easily selfhost a portal like that with wander or try one of these linked wander consoles.
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I’ve been a Kagi subscriber for 6 months and this is the first I’m hearing of the small web portal, so thank you!
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That's not new. They've had it for a long time now.
If Kagi were Free (as im Free Beer), Libre (as in Free Speech/Freedom) and Open Source, it were perfect.
But not only it's not open source, but also it's paid. I ain't using nothing that isn't FLOSS.
It's five bucks a month and has a lot of functionality.
For only 300 searches, that's 10 searches a day. I do probably 50 to 100 searches per day.
So, it's really $10 a month.
I might pay $5 a month for unlimited but I'm not sure about that. Because, you know they'll raise the price if they get successful enough. And, then it's just a constant march to more enshittification.
They offer a genuinely good product and I think it's important to support companies that sell a good product rather than their customers' info.
I paid $5 for a couple of years but eventually stopped because I kept running out of searches after a few weeks. $10 a month for a search engine is excessive but 300 searches a month is too limiting.
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And they use Yandex as part of their underlying search.
At this point, I don't see why that is any worse than using the services of any US-based Big Tech companies. They have the same kind of anti-privacy business model, their local political regimes have both gone off the rails, and law enforcement and intelligence agencies can legally or extra-judicially snoop through collected data without the user ever knowing.
Some of the services provided by Yandex are, quality-wise, decent enough. I personally tend to find their translation service to be as good or better, as compared to similar services, such as Google Translate or DeepL, so it's usually my API of choice through Mohzi.
For me its not about the quality provided but about not supporting a company located in a questionable country. To me that includes both the US and Russia.
I agree. But that's why I was wondering why you were singling out Yandex in particular, when Kagi also sources from questionable US companies.
To me, they're all equally problematic.
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This is great. This was one of things that I disliked about Lemmy, as being federated makes it harder to use external search engines.
I think that might be the final thing to make me switch from DDG to Kagi.
you can also find something similar in SearXNG
Yeah, and that one is FLOSS (Free [as in Free Beer], Libre (as in Free Speech/Freedom] and Open Source Software). So SearXNG >>>>> Kagi.
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Others are saying its not new, but it is to me. Thank you for sharing OP!
Finally, I can pay money to use Lemmy
That's fucking awesome but the ranking is highly questionable.
I searched myself and a 4 upvote comment was the top thing.
I would have expected plenty of results from lemmynsfw given your username.
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kagi small web lens is honestly the best thing <3
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