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I expect google to ignore what I searched for and change it to something more commonly found. Even setting it to Verbatim did not yield a correct first result:

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Kagi used to be so so so good at accurate searching and in the past week or two it really seems like its sadly slipping.

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[–] Steve 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Finding a needle in a hay stack is easy. This isn't.

Your analogy breaks because there is no needle.
Or it's a stack of needles.

The point is, the thing you're looking for and the stuff you aren't are all the same stuff.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In my metaphor the needle is the uncommon search and the hay is the common one. The way google works is to always return the hay and never the needle. If you don't understand how they manipulate the results to achieve this, I'm happy to explain it in more detail.

The point is the thing you’re looking for and the stuff you aren’t are all the same stuff. It is easy. Just return the result that is the best actual match for my search term, as entered.. Optimizing for the user who enters the wrong search term is bad for everyone involved. There certainly is no case for Kagi to do it.

Manipulation of search results makes the most sense for a search engine that is selling ads, to drive up more placement.

Search results should not be manipulated. Just think about there that leads.

[–] Steve 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Search results have to be manipulated. Otherwise everything would return porn, or spam. Straight up character string searchs haven't been used online since 1995 if ever.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're not talking about spam filtering. We're talking about not prioritizing the title of a song as written, even in so called Verbatim mode.

[–] Steve 0 points 3 weeks ago

As I said, you have a poor imagination. You have no understanding of how any of this works. Your just don't like the magic machine didn't read your mind.

Its busy at work now. I'm done here. Sorry