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To be fair Kagi is often worse than Google in my experience.

If they are listening my perks are

- for non-English results it is significantly worse than Google

- the map is nearly useless and a joke. Names in Hebrew and Arabic appear inverted

- (browser's fault) required login in private tabs is a mayor annoyance. I wish I could pick say DDG for private tabs and kagi for normal ones

- (Safari's fault) the extension is nearly useless, it doesn't really register as an alternate search engine but it tries desperately to intercept requests to other search engines instead

Moreover for private browsing the

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The map is currently still… suboptimal. They know it.

For non-english results, did you search with !reg or changed the region to something fitting whatever language you are searching in? I only speak German and I have no complaints with the results I get with !reg there.

Private browsing: There’s a URL in the settings (account -> session link), that contains your private session token. Using that, you can search in private mode as long as you stay logged in elsewhere.

> required login in private tabs is a mayor annoyance

I tried to give Neeva feedback about that, suggesting to use either vhost auth or in-URL auth such as 67f3a96e-2805-4fb5-9f52-f049d918c584.example.com/?q=whatever or search.example.com/67f3a96e-2805-4fb5-9f52-f049d918c584/?q=whatever so the normal browser's query mechanism would work fine in both normal and private browsing mode

some of these criticisms are probably fair. I only speak english so can't comment on non-english results, but it wouldn't suprise me if the Kagi creators were primarily or only english speaking and step one is optimizing for english.

I'll also say that Google maps, while it has made some missteps in my eyes is the one good feature of Google (well, google translate is pretty good too.) and while I haven't kept up, last I heard, Google had over 1000 staff on the maps division, so, yes, I expect any mapping service is going to be worse than Google.

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