# The Small Web & Custom Lenses: Rediscovering Human Writing
## Elevating personal blogs, indie software, and non-commercial gems over corporate silos.

One of the most human-centric aspects of Kagi is its dedication to the **Small Web**. Through custom search lenses and domain ranking rules, you can completely reshape how the web looks to your applications and agents.

### What are Lenses?
Lenses are focused views of the index that prioritize specific communities:
- **Indie Web & Personal Blogs**: Surfaces authentic writing from individual developers.
- **Academic & Preprints**: Restricts results to arXiv, Nature, and institutional repositories.
- **Non-Commercial**: Eliminates all affiliate marketing and commercial storefronts.

```bash
# Querying Kagi Search with specific domain weighting
curl -G "https://kagi.com/api/v0/search" \
  -H "Authorization: Bot YOUR_KAGI_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "q=local first software architectures" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=10"
```

By querying the Search API with custom lenses, your tools get high-signal, human-crafted engineering insights rather than AI-generated SEO spam.

🔗 **Official Resources:**
- [Kagi Lenses & Search Customization](https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/lenses.html)
- [Small Web Initiative](https://kagi.com/smallweb)