336
Kagi brings its 'small web' of a human-only internet to mobile devices | TechCrunch
(techcrunch.com)
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
336 points (96.9% liked)
Technology
83990 readers
3319 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
"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.
I've seen "small web" used to describe personal sites and blogs in HTTP-land for a while, like how Kagi is using the term. I think it just so happens, due to the nature of protocols like Gopher and Gemini, all of the content there is very personal, so it gets described as small web.
Yes, besides Gopher and Gemini, “small web” usually includes traditionally coded HTML+simple CSS+handmade/small JS websites. I.e. websites that are not using a big JS framework or huge amounts of CSS.