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Kagi is good, I’ve been an unlimited subscriber for a while. Two low hanging fruit opportunities though: 1. Location based or aware searching - it keeps giving
by MOARDONGZPLZ 3y ago
Kagi is good, I’ve been an unlimited subscriber for a while. Two low hanging fruit opportunities though:
1. Location based or aware searching - it keeps giving me the UK versions of storefronts or the identically-named steakhouse a thousand miles away and not the one I can walk to. Kind of lame, particularly giving me random countries’ versions of sites.
2. The map — maybe this is a setting, but the map always gives me nearly useless results. This is probably tied to geolocation or location aware results.
- wrboyce 3y agoOne of my main complaints (aside how bad the iOS extension is, but I guess Apple can shoulder most of the blame there) is that I often get US storefronts despite using the "United Kingdom (GB)" region. How odd! I even get amazon.com results, but never amazon.co.uk.
- brookst 3y agoThe iOS extension has a kludgey install, but it works perfectly for me. Did the weird stuff once, never had to think about it again , and all I get are Kagi results.
- wrboyce 3y agoI've had to disable it since a recent update as it broke the "!g" bang which I still occasionally find useful. It seems to insist on intercepting Google searches even when I explicitly use Google. It also ruins the UX of the address/search bar somewhat (my search term becomes a Kagi URL so is less easily editable), but that is Apple's fault.
- graemep 3y agoI have the same problem with Firefox desktop.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 3y agoI constantly get links to the UK version of sites when I search for things from the US. It’s very annoying, and sometimes sites are broken in a weird way where a cookie is set and I can’t get to the US version without being redirected back to UK version.
- klabb3 3y agoForgive my ignorance, but how is this “low hanging fruit”? Google is still extremely competitive in the maps/location space, and I’ve heard Apple Maps is very good these days. Secondly, these features are not trivial. Maps are much more interactive - giant teams or even orgs are managing these products at faang. On the other hand, having language-awareness is perhaps more important. Google frequently gives me results based on location, although I don’t speak the language (well). Getting results in English is hard where I am, in the typical infantilizing fashion of megacorps (we think you want X, and we’re not gonna offer you a setting). Edit: apparently Google added Spanish as a language automatically based on some searches, and then search results for say API docs came up in Spanish first instead, despite English being my “preferred language”.
- ambigious7777 3y agoI think OP just wants to have map results based off geolocation, not a full-fledged map service.
- lintbrush 3y agoI agree that maps, looking up locations etc is the one ingrained Google-user pattern that always leads me to a weird dead end and has me popping back over to google for JUST that query. I don't know if there's a toggle I just haven't found yet for just automatically using Google Maps for location based searches until their feature gets a little better. Beyond that, Kagi has been an incredible breath of fresh air.