While reading the article Small Web Just Got Bigger on the Kagi blog and I landed on Kagi Small Web and found it interesting.

What is Small Web?
While there’s no single, perfect definition, we like to define the Small Web as personal blogs, independent videos, webcomics, and other authentic spaces created for non-commercial purposes, usually for self-expression or community building. Basically, sites in the Small Web exist to share and entertain, not manipulate algorithms or boost corporate interests. (And they’re really fun to browse at random!)

Through the Kagi search engine, they are trying to give more visibility to small personal blogs and other non-profit spaces. For this, they have added personal websites to their search results and even created a website for the same. The Kagi Small Web website shows a random post from these websites based on certain criteria.

I have always loved these independent blogs and websites. They are personal, authentic, and created by people who love sharing what they have. Rather than having any particular motive, I think most of them are doing this for themselves. It’s like they are building their own home in a quiet corner of the web.

Whenever I am landing on an interesting personal blog through links and rabbit holes, I always think about how these websites can become more easily discoverable, something like Instagram, but for personal websites. Even though there are websites like blogroll, personal website directories, Internet Phone Book and lot of other website which try to curate personal spaces, and now we can use ActivityPub protocol to interconnect these websites. But I believe we need more tools for this purpose. I hope Kagi Small Web will take this effort one step further.

So I also wanted to be part of that website, and I checked how I could add my website to their Small Web directory. I found the GitHub repo where you can add your website feed, and out of curiosity I checked my name in that repo. I was surprised when I saw my name there. I have been on their list for more than two years.

So I checked my name on their website and found the following.

And yes, somehow, without knowing it, my little website was already part of it. Thank you Kagi for this effort and it motivates me to write and share more here.