Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong • Hacker News Board

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by Waterluvian » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 3:45 PM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #28

Waterluvian wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

That is so cursed.

I love it!

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by dublinben » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 3:45 PM UTC

anfragment wrote: post #26

BinaryPie wrote: post #17

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

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/

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...

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by VHRanger » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 3:53 PM UTC

TriangleEdge wrote: post #19

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

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

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by Lord-Jobo » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:09 PM UTC

nkurz wrote: post #13

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 w…

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.

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by tensor » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:11 PM UTC

anfragment wrote: post #26

BinaryPie wrote: post #17

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

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/

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.

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by Lord-Jobo » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:12 PM UTC

BinaryPie wrote: post #17

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

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.

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by anfragment » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

kome wrote: post #27

anfragment wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

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

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.

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by anfragment » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:15 PM UTC

dublinben wrote: post #32

anfragment wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

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...

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

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by nunez » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:27 PM UTC

BinaryPie wrote: post #17

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

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!).

Re: Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong

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Post by card_zero » Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 4:28 PM UTC

de46le wrote: post #11

card_zero wrote: post #6

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

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