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I'm still using & paying for Kagi, but I have noticed a sudden drop in search results quality in the last month or two. Unfortunately I didn't take note of the

I'm still using & paying for Kagi, but I have noticed a sudden drop in search results quality in the last month or two. Unfortunately I didn't take note of the specific searches, but I jumped over to Brave Search and everything I was looking for was right on the top, instead of down around page 2 of Kagi. There's more blatantly obvious spam results seeping into Kagi as well, though at least I can block those domains when I come across them. A few of them were hacked websites, notably government websites in South Asia that had been thoroughly compromised.

nusl 3y ago
Okay. Seems our experiences are similar. The timeline is roughly within the last two months that I noticed the same.
freediver 3y ago
That would be unusual. Did you turn on verbatim search option in kagi and forgot to turn it off?
- SyneRyder 3y ago
  Nope, I don't think so? I'm going through my settings now, and I have Safe Search and Image Safe Search both enabled. Which makes it even more surprising that it was returning hacked government sites mentioning porn in the search snippet. (Just found what you meant by Verbatim search - nope, I would have always had Personalized turned on instead. Seeing those results would be the first time I even encountered those domains, so I didn't know to block the domain until then. Since the domain is still in my blocklist, I can confirm it was a government website in Mumbai. I don't have any reason to be visiting Indian government sites.) I'm not saying every Kagi search is infected with hacked results, it's only common at times when I'm really researching something and need to get to a second page of results. I also note that some Warez sites rank highly in Kagi too. Knowing that Kagi's customer base is largely from HN, that's less surprising to me, and I'm thankful that I can block those domains from my own personal results.

nusl 3y ago

Okay. Seems our experiences are similar. The timeline is roughly within the last two months that I noticed the same.

freediver 3y ago

That would be unusual. Did you turn on verbatim search option in kagi and forgot to turn it off?

SyneRyder 3y ago
Nope, I don't think so? I'm going through my settings now, and I have Safe Search and Image Safe Search both enabled. Which makes it even more surprising that it was returning hacked government sites mentioning porn in the search snippet. (Just found what you meant by Verbatim search - nope, I would have always had Personalized turned on instead. Seeing those results would be the first time I even encountered those domains, so I didn't know to block the domain until then. Since the domain is still in my blocklist, I can confirm it was a government website in Mumbai. I don't have any reason to be visiting Indian government sites.) I'm not saying every Kagi search is infected with hacked results, it's only common at times when I'm really researching something and need to get to a second page of results. I also note that some Warez sites rank highly in Kagi too. Knowing that Kagi's customer base is largely from HN, that's less surprising to me, and I'm thankful that I can block those domains from my own personal results.