The Small Web is Tricky to Find
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- The developer faced requests for more category options in the Firefox extension.
- Parsing websites for tags was used to categorize content, combining data from Ghost, Wordpress, and Kagi Small Web.
- Finding non-technical content is difficult because small web sites lack categorization and Google search is broken.
- Key challenges: reliable genre classification, sourcing independent sites, and distributing content types.
- The small web concept relied solely on Google for traffic, which is now broken, making discovery nearly impossible.