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"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)

submitted 7 months ago by Atemu@lemmy.ml to c/kagi@lemmy.ml

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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I quite like using Kagi, what I really lack though is localised results based on the query. If I am looking for a restaurant in my area, Google knows to suggest me restaurants that have a similar name that are close to me. Kagi will show me something in Germany while I am in Canada. Searching businesses in Google is a much better experience than on Kagi, with reviews and maps integration all on the same page. I also don't like that when I enter an address in the search box, there is no map widget for a quick access to the fullscreen map.

Is there any place I should post this feedback for it to be taken into account? These features are what's really making Google search shine in my opinion, and having these would make me more at ease about paying 10$ per month for a search engine.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

They have attempted to make this but you have to be rather specific to trigger local results. "Chinese takeaway" will not trigger it for instance but "Chinese takeaway near me" will.

Improving this is hard but a possibility I see would be to have certain categories of search default to region-local (as in: country, general region) or location-specifc (town, borough).
Searches on the topic of shopping, taxes, bureaucracy etc. should automatically make results local.
Searches on the topic of restaurants, shops, leasure, transport etc. should be location-specific.

Determining these topics would be the hard part though; especially given that it'd have to happen in multiple languages.

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is there any place I should post this feedback for it to be taken into account?

Kagi Search feedback forum. They're also quite active on Discord, but prefer feature requests and bugs to be tracked on their forum.

Ref: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/support-and-community/discord-server.html

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Good to know, thanks, I'll search if I see something similar posted tomorrow