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It’s highly annoying to me as well. I’m still paying for now, but since they started (I was using them in Beta), they’ve been slowly using towards the mainstrea
by Semaphor 2y ago
It’s highly annoying to me as well. I’m still paying for now, but since they started (I was using them in Beta), they’ve been slowly using towards the mainstream "implicit" behavior and away from "explicit" behavior. I now see myself quoting terms far more often, which has other disadvantages (no typo correction, diacritics becoming relevant, etc.).
It’s the same for regional searches. Used to be (until Dec 2023) I could search for an ambiguous term (e.g. a product name that’s the same in English and German) with "!de" for German regional search and get German results. Now that’s impossible as most results will be the same English pages I’d get with my normal international or US region.
Overall just not a fan of the direction they are moving in (which seems to be DDG with personalization and no ads, but no more expert search)
- PhilippGille 2y agoDid you raise it to the Kagi feedback forum [1] already? Based on Kagi's release notes [2] they regularly fix things like this. [1] https://kagifeedback.org/ https://kagifeedback.org/ [2] https://kagi.com/changelog https://kagi.com/changelog
- Semaphor 2y agoThe issue thread about regional search has been open since January 2024 [0], with a lot of talk but no change at all. Some people like the change because they apparently always search in regional mode and want all results there. I posted several examples of my issues there. I also asked on discord about the dropping of search terms and was just told to use verbatim search (quotes) if I don’t want dropped terms. [0]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-ideas-for-improving-localinternationalenglish-search-modalities/6 https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-ideas-for-improving-localint...