I’m actually currently pretty annoyed with them, as it’s been over 2 weeks of non-English searches being borderline-broken [0] with no feedback or ETA.
[0]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-english-results-given-too-mu...
[0]: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3022-english-results-given-too-mu...
Now I can just keep it on my local language, even while doing English searches. Previously I had to switch between national and international all the time, that was a pain.
> Now I can just keep it on my local language, even while doing English searches.
That’s exactly the issue. I search for a name, so it can’t know what language it’s in. But I want the German results, that’s why I switched it to German.
> Previously I had to switch between national and international all the time, that was a pain.
That wasn’t an issue at all for me, I use !de for German searches, and nothing for automatic international searches.
My language, Norwegian, is also a much "smaller" one than German, so search results without any English are outright worse. Personally, even if I spoke German, I'd prefer to get Wikipedia on top for a search like "Olympus E-P2".
It seems like they should implement a "verbatim language" search option, so both use cases can be satisfied.
And never the US Amazon or eBay over the German version.
To be clear, I'm not saying that "this is already good enough so what are you complaining about", I'm merely suggesting something that might go most of the way to fixing it until Kagi eventually implements a better search. They are a small company and I'd imagine that non-english language (and especially multi-lingual) behavior is not going to be the top-most priority, as understandably frustrating as that is for the people who need it.
Kagi is not broken in general, 95% of the time it's still fine because almost all my searches are in English, so without !de in the German region. It's only the regional search that is not working properly anymore because they went further into "we know what you actually want to search for" territory. Not doing that was a huge part of what I loved about kagi.
In addition, this worked fine all the time. I've been using Kagi since the earliest betas, they only broke it very recently.