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  • Use fandom and other wikis as a source for wiki previews and their structured data for instant answers

  • SuggestionsDesktopDone

This may be a long shot and I expect (at best; if even considered) a multi-month "on backlog" state, but I'd love to get answers even faster as much as possible.

Here, it's already being answered in the page description.

For comparison, here's google results

Also, I'd love to get a big bold "16" at the top of the page that some general results have.

I'd guess this result comes from Google then. Except the first one has it in bold and bigger text, but the "people also ask" seems to be positioned badly (moving the other result downwards and being kind of useless in this context).

What I'd love is to have the wikipedia widget also show things from other (at least notable) wikis, like fandom (where each community has it's own wiki instance), uncyclopedia and more. They all share the wikipedia api and are running mediawiki, so it "shouldn't be that hard" (as they all say; and as always, is wrong).

  • Vlad replied to this.

    danbulant We already have these instant results, but are just more careful when we show them. We prefer to be right to showing instant answer whenever we can.

    In this case age of denji is not clear, it is either 16 or 17 depending on the context so showing 16 would be wrong and our AI model was hesitant.

    Here is an example of Kagi instant answer widget.

    Note how for the same question Google gave the wrong answer (the question was about world gdp, it referenced US GDP).

    Google knows that users like these, and will prefer to show them even when they are wrong.

    Technology powering this is not simple and Kagi is the only search engine apart from Google and Bing to try to answer questions like this.

    This aside it looks like we have a bug currently that prevents surfacing the answer so we will fix this.

        Vlad understanding the difficulties with this, maybe it coming down to the person searching would be the easiest solution.

        You did the example of age. If the searcher were to enter either “manga” or “anime” then pulling the correct bio information would be far easier would it not? This allowing for more instant “wiki” results in Kagi.

        Unless I’m vastly oversimplifying the tech here.

        • Vlad replied to this.

            Oh that makes sense.
            Got used to typing the least amount of letters to get the answer, both because it usually helps the search and because I want the result fast.
            Anyway, thanks for that.

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