# Kagi Brings Back Old-School Search, One Human-Made Website at a Time

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/kagi-brings-back-old-school-search-one-human-made-website-at-a-time/
- Published: 2026-07-24T09:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-24T10:07:51+00:00
- Original publisher: Wired
- Original article: https://www.wired.com/story/kagi-brings-back-old-school-search-one-human-made-website-at-a-time/
- Topics: Software

## Key points

- Kagi is promoting a curated, human-made “Small Web”.
- Its paid search aims to avoid adverts and data-driven targeting.
- Prices start at $5 monthly after a 100-search trial.

## Summary

Kagi is expanding beyond its paid, privacy-focused search engine with a “Small Web” project designed to surface websites created and curated by people. The initiative responds to concerns that search and online publishing are increasingly shaped by advertising, algorithms and AI-generated material, and aims to recreate some of the discovery associated with the early web.

Kagi’s search service offers 100 free trial searches, then costs from $5 a month for 300 searches or $10 a month for unlimited searches and additional AI-assistant use. It says subscribers pay directly rather than through personal data or advertising, while its search results emphasise its own web and news indexes, non-commercial sites, and the absence of sponsored links; the Small Web feature lets users browse selected sites at random, save favourites and search for particular content.

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