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Yeah, seems like we have totally opposite opinions, I vastly prefer the way it is now where I don't have to use bangs/change settings all the time to get good r

Yeah, seems like we have totally opposite opinions, I vastly prefer the way it is now where I don't have to use bangs/change settings all the time to get good results by default. My language, Norwegian, is also a much "smaller" one than German, so search results without any English are outright worse. Personally, even if I spoke German, I'd prefer to get Wikipedia on top for a search like "Olympus E-P2". It seems like they should implement a "verbatim language" search option, so both use cases can be satisfied.

Semaphor 3y ago
I'd rather have the German Wikipedia, though … And never the US Amazon or eBay over the German version.
- kristofferR 3y ago
  It doesn't have a German Wikipedia article, so that's an impossibility. Agree with the store links though, except perhaps one US Amazon link - when I buy expensive tech I usually check 1-star reviews to see if it has serious problem.
  - Semaphor 3y ago
    Yeah, I forgot again that you want the automation. Kagi used to be about being explicit, and not guessing what you want. That is what I want back.
- MostlyStable 3y ago
  With kagi, can't you block and/or de-rank specific domains? This obviously isn't a fully general solution, but if there are a small number of domains that A) come up frequently and B)you never want the english version (like ebay and amazon), then just block the english versions of those websites and promote the german versions. To be clear, I'm not saying that "this is already good enough so what are you complaining about", I'm merely suggesting something that might go most of the way to fixing it until Kagi eventually implements a better search. They are a small company and I'd imagine that non-english language (and especially multi-lingual) behavior is not going to be the top-most priority, as understandably frustrating as that is for the people who need it.
  - Semaphor 3y ago
    That's not useful at all. I normally want those pages, but not when I'm doing a German search. Kagi is not broken in general, 95% of the time it's still fine because almost all my searches are in English, so without !de in the German region. It's only the regional search that is not working properly anymore because they went further into "we know what you actually want to search for" territory. Not doing that was a huge part of what I loved about kagi. In addition, this worked fine all the time. I've been using Kagi since the earliest betas, they only broke it very recently.

Semaphor 3y ago

I'd rather have the German Wikipedia, though … And never the US Amazon or eBay over the German version.

kristofferR 3y ago
It doesn't have a German Wikipedia article, so that's an impossibility. Agree with the store links though, except perhaps one US Amazon link - when I buy expensive tech I usually check 1-star reviews to see if it has serious problem.
- Semaphor 3y ago
  Yeah, I forgot again that you want the automation. Kagi used to be about being explicit, and not guessing what you want. That is what I want back.
MostlyStable 3y ago
With kagi, can't you block and/or de-rank specific domains? This obviously isn't a fully general solution, but if there are a small number of domains that A) come up frequently and B)you never want the english version (like ebay and amazon), then just block the english versions of those websites and promote the german versions. To be clear, I'm not saying that "this is already good enough so what are you complaining about", I'm merely suggesting something that might go most of the way to fixing it until Kagi eventually implements a better search. They are a small company and I'd imagine that non-english language (and especially multi-lingual) behavior is not going to be the top-most priority, as understandably frustrating as that is for the people who need it.
- Semaphor 3y ago
  That's not useful at all. I normally want those pages, but not when I'm doing a German search. Kagi is not broken in general, 95% of the time it's still fine because almost all my searches are in English, so without !de in the German region. It's only the regional search that is not working properly anymore because they went further into "we know what you actually want to search for" territory. Not doing that was a huge part of what I loved about kagi. In addition, this worked fine all the time. I've been using Kagi since the earliest betas, they only broke it very recently.