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I mostly use Duckduckgo these days but fall back on Google for non-English searches because DDG is lacking in that area.

Kagi users, how good is Kagi for non-English searches?

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For Danish searches, simple queries get confused with Norwegian/Swedish results.

Admittedly, I haven't said anywhere that I prefer Danish results when the query is the same in two languages. My operating system and browser are not configured to reveal my nationality. The only way Kagi would know is if they factored in my IP address. Which I can deduce that they don't. I prefer it that way.

Results are good, but the problem is working in multiple languages or in region with multiple languages.

There is a discussion[1] on this topic on the forum.

[1]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/89-language-vs-region

Can only speak for German searches, but the results are good there.

I'm currently running the free trial for Kagi and the few non-English searches I've tried have been fine. That being said, I would say they've mostly been pretty simple things to look up since I'm trying to get a feel for how well the engine suits me. If you're interested you could also try the free trial, you don't need a credit card or anything for the trial.

For me, Japanese search quality is on par with Google most of the time.

Kagi in Dutch has been very good.

The last thing I've still been using Google for was looking up which Dutch retailers sold the product I was looking for. But now I see that was unnecessary.

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