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Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong
- amelius 1y agoThe first blooper seems to forget that time == money.
- metayrnc 1y ago“Pure numbers and French are not compatible” Yep that checks out
- Waterluvian 1y agoSixty-ten-eight! Sixty-ten-nine! Four-twenties! 1999 == One thousand, nine hundreds, four twenties, ten, nine. I studied French in grade school over ten years and I love it. But the way numbers convert into language is wild. I tease it with love.
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- Pooge 1y agoSwitzerland and Belgium got them right!
- rkomorn 1y agoAs a French person who grew up going to a school in Belgium for a bit as a kid, I was quite amused by their numbers. My thought as a 6 year old was "aw, are soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix too complicated for you?" Even now, while I think the French numbers make objectively no sense (even the countries that do count in 20s are at least more consistent than us), I can't help but find the Swiss and Belgian numbers "cute". Like "Baby's first 70 to 99". And for whatever reason, I don't have the same opinion about 70-99 in English, Portuguese or Spanish. Edit: just to be clear, I think my thoughts about it are absurd but they're too deeply engrained and decades old to shed completely.
- HeinzStuckeIt 1y agoIt’s a well-known phenomenon that with the internet and modern media, large countries’ version of a language can affect the speech of the smaller countries using that language. Think kids in Portugal today growing up using lots of Brazilian words to their parents’ dismay, or americanisms slipping into UK speech. This makes me wonder if any young Vallon French speakers have started to pick up standard French higher numerals.
- Cosi1125 1y ago> Sixty-ten-eight! Sixty-ten-nine! Four-twenties! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze6ZMkT2Z4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze6ZMkT2Z4 :-)
- cperciva 1y ago"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".
- Waterluvian 1y agoThat is so cursed. I love it!
- card_zero 1y agoGood grief, it gets worse. It's half third [ordinal] times twenty, ½ #3 × 20.
- rkomorn 1y agoBut the history of why we stuck to four-twenties sort of makes it worse. We were allegedly headed to sanity but l'Academie was like "actually let's stick to soixante-dix, quatre-vingt, and quatre-vingt-dix".
- fajitaforce5 1y agoUS time: a quarter till 8.
- layer8 1y ago= 775¢
- maccam912 1y agoHeres one I found: search for "spaceweather" and you get weather for East Derry, New Hampshire. Definitely not space. The results I need are one and two for links below, but a friend pointed out that there is an astronaut (Alan Shepherd maybe?) who lived there which is the only connection to space I can think of for that city.
- card_zero 1y agoI guess for "Pop os" it gave a 2004 estimate for the population of the Cocos Islands. https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/pacifique/cocos-ile.htm https://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/pacifique/cocos-ile.htm
- dceddia 1y agoNot quite a blooper but I thought it was neat: I searched Kagi for “veterans day 2025” the other day (on Veterans Day, when I was unsure) and it answered “= today”
- phyzome 1y agoJust going to drop a quick complaint here that none of these are search results. (though yes, they are funny)
- bayesnet 1y agoPeople searched for something; these were the results. What else would you call it?
- slacktivism123 1y agoIf we use the strict definition of organic results in SERP, these aren't the result of webpage indexation, they're the output of widgets and other natural language parsing in Kagi. https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/widgets.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/settings/widgets.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/search-operators.html#query-shortcuts-widgets https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/search-operators.html#qu...
- input_sh 1y agoThose used to be called "instant answers" before every search engine renamed them to "AI overviews".
- phyzome 1y agoBy that definition a 500 page would also be a search result. :-)
- layer8 1y agoPeople prompted the search engine to search for something. These aren’t the results of the search engine searching for something. More generally, these results aren’t “found”, they are conceived on the spot.
- nkurz 1y agoGiven the title "Search Results Gone Wrong", I'd like to take this opportunity to try to shame Kagi into fixing the search results for the "More results" feature. This simple feature is broken in that it often gives you repeats of the same initial results it gave. That is, instead of giving you "More results", it gives you a lot of "Same results". I reported this as a bug about 6 months ago, and was quickly told it was planned to be fixed. But it hasn't been fixed. I checked in again a few weeks ago to see if there was any progress, and apparently they've given up because it is too hard: "Apologies, seems I forgot to update the thread. Unfortunately it is in fact trickier than it looks to dedupe these results. Mainly this is a result of how we work with results from upstream sources, and deduping is heavily complicated by caching issues." Kagi, you're generally great. I'm usually happy to be a paying customer. But I refuse to believe that deduping a list of URL's is actually too hard for you. Maybe I'm one of the few users who actually cares about searching for web pages, but for my use cases my search results would be much better if you actually gave me more results when I click on "More results". How is this not considered core functionality for a search engine? Please fix this! Here's the bug report: https://kagifeedback.org/d/7022-clicking-more-results-yields-lots-of-duplicates https://kagifeedback.org/d/7022-clicking-more-results-yields...
- Lord-Jobo 1y agoSomewhat related, Reddit has been broken for me in a very similar way for more than a year now. Whenever I scroll down to load more pages, it will populate with about 80% the same threads as it loaded on previous pages. Over and over, such that by the time I’m on page 6 or so, I will have 6 of the exact same thread. Really stupid bug that probably only happens with old.Reddit or RES or something. But it’s nice in that it keeps me off of Reddit I guess.
- bovermyer 1y agoI can confirm that that bug exists even on "new" Reddit.
- collingreen 1y agoCommon bug for caching lists that are reordering all the time. Unlikely to be fixed though since it causes you to very quickly skip the repeat content (without having to serve you more than headlines) and see more ads. The "bug" multiplies the value they can get from each post which is a very important metric especially as llm slop has started to destroy perceived value from random posts from strangers (reddits only resource). I'm not saying they introduced it on purpose the way Google intentionally showed bad search results to encourage a second query but I'm not confident that fixing it will be high on the priority list until it makes people leave the site.
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- BinaryPie 1y agoIs Kagi worth paying for? It's been on my radar for a while.
- steve-atx-7600 1y agoI think so. I switched to it because I have YouTube tv - essentially Google as cable tv provider - and noticed how commercials became too correlated with recent Google searches for comfort. The only time I end up switching back to Google is for looking up local businesses reviews.
- phyzome 1y agoI think generally yes. I tried it out for free for a while, found it was substantially better than Google and DuckDuckGo, and paid for a subscription. Recently it has not had such a strong quality margin, which I suspect is due to the AI slop that all of the search engines are fighting against (due to errors both ways in their detection). I'm hoping this is temporary. To be clear, I don't use any of their features except search (and domain filtering).
- shortrounddev2 1y agoIm happy with it. I have filters which will try to find search results from before 2022, which has greatly improved the quality of results for me
- anfragment 1y agoJust be aware that a small percentage of your money would be going to the Russian government: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/
- kome 1y agoalso duckduckgo use(d) yandex. not many alternatives in this space
- anfragment 1y agoI use duckduckgo and live in a neighboring country, so I know Russian well (thanks, imperialism) and have to search things in it from time to time. It's still good at those queries, so this is just an excuse.
- TriangleEdge 1y agoDoes Kagi have any value in the era of LLMs? My understanding is that it aggregates result from different providers.
- phyzome 1y agoIf you don't understand the value of a search engine over an LLM, then you're not going to understand the relative value of different search engines.
- acdha 1y agoYes: you get reliable source information and don’t get inaccurate summaries. E.g. last week I used Gemini to answer a plant biology question and got two contradictory answers based on minor variations in the wording because it incorrectly relied on blog spam over peer-reviewed articles for the first query. The initial false answer was baldly asserted by the LLM without sources in the first two paragraphs but some of the phrasing it used was enough to locate the non-authoritative blog content it was apparently laundering. Had it accurately cited sources, it would’ve been easy to see that this random WordPress site saying X wasn’t as authoritative as the PubMed hits saying !X.
- VHRanger 1y agoKagi assistant is effectively a superset of other LLM chat apps. Has access to kagi search which is a also a superset of search backends for the assistant
- RhysU 1y agoI second the utility of the Kagi Assistant. I didn't think I would use it much but now do so constantly. Especially because ending a regular search query in a question mark will cause the results page to lead with the Assistant answer! It's a delightful way to try both search and LLMs in one UI interaction.
- phyzome 1y agoIsn't that what all of the search engines do now by default?