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Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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metayrnc

3d ago

1 reply

“Pure numbers and French are not compatible”

Yep that checks out

Waterluvian

3d ago

4 replies

Sixty-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.

cperciva

3d ago

2 replies

"Four twenties and ten" is better than the Danish "five minus a half, times twenty".

card_zero

3d ago

Good grief, it gets worse. It's half third [ordinal] times twenty, ½ #3 × 20.

Waterluvian

3d ago

That is so cursed.

I love it!

fajitaforce5

3d ago

US time: a quarter till 8.

Cosi1125

3d ago

> Sixty-ten-eight! Sixty-ten-nine! Four-twenties!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ze6ZMkT2Z4 :-)

Pooge

3d ago

Switzerland and Belgium got them right!

card_zero

3d ago

1 reply

I 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

de46le

3d ago

1 reply

More likely the town of Os in Innlandet, Norway, which was around that population a year or two ago.

card_zero

3d ago

Very good! I didn't think of towns. I established that the alpha-2 country code "OS" is unassigned, and went hunting through the smallest microstates.

phyzome

3d ago

1 reply

Just going to drop a quick complaint here that none of these are search results.

(though yes, they are funny)

bayesnet

3d ago

3 replies

People searched for something; these were the results. What else would you call it?

slacktivism123

3d ago

If 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/features/search-operators.html#qu...

input_sh

3d ago

Those used to be called "instant answers" before every search engine renamed them to "AI overviews".

phyzome

3d ago

By that definition a 500 page would also be a search result. :-)

nkurz

3d ago

1 reply

Given 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...

Lord-Jobo

3d ago

1 reply

Somewhat 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

3d ago

I can confirm that that bug exists even on "new" Reddit.

BinaryPie

3d ago

8 replies

Is Kagi worth paying for? It's been on my radar for a while.

anfragment

3d ago

3 replies

Just be aware that a small percentage of your money would be going to the Russian government: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/

kome

3d ago

1 reply

also duckduckgo use(d) yandex. not many alternatives in this space

anfragment

3d ago

I 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.

dublinben

3d ago

1 reply

The EU is still buying billions of dollars of fossil fuels and other resources from Russia.[0]

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/3/how-much-of-europes...

anfragment

3d ago

Nefarious actions by others shouldn't justify your own. We can do better.

tensor

3d ago

I try not to buy from US companies these days, but Kagi is really so good that I make an exception here, despite the US government getting some of my money.

shortrounddev2

3d ago

Im 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

phyzome

3d ago

I 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).

fajitaforce5

3d ago

My wife and I got the duo package because we do a lot of writing and need citations and sources. Compared to google and DDG it is less noisy and returns fewer spammy pages. We’re giving it a year to see if it is worth it.

nunez

3d ago

Absolutely, yes. It has completely replaced Google for search for me. Good AI search as well if you're into that (but they don't force you to use it!).

Lord-Jobo

3d ago

If you expect it to be as good as peak google results, no.

If you need something that’s very noticeably better than its competition, then yes.

If you are okay with all of the terrible that comes with using LLM services as a search engine replacement, then probably no.

If you despise the amount of second guessing and source checking required to use LLMs as search tools, then yes.

steve-atx-7600

3d ago

I 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.

m-schuetz

3d ago

The domain-block feature makes it worth it for me. Finally no longer having medium or userbenchmark pollute my search results.

TriangleEdge

3d ago

4 replies

Does Kagi have any value in the era of LLMs? My understanding is that it aggregates result from different providers.

VHRanger

3d ago

1 reply

Kagi 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

3d ago

1 reply

I 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

3d ago

Isn't that what all of the search engines do now by default?

phyzome

3d ago

If 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.

bovermyer

3d ago

You say that as if LLMs are a good thing.

acdha

3d ago

Yes: 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.

maccam912

3d ago

Heres 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.

dceddia

3d ago

Not 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”

amelius

3d ago

The first blooper seems to forget that time == money.

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