"Simple" mode for low-cost searches

Kagibeh

What about preview suggestions? A lot of people probably (ab)use search because they only half remember an URL they would easily recognize if they'd be given the option to click on it in a dropdown.

Also, Google has recently expanded their preview suggestions. If you type "Orlando Bloom" you will see the name with a small pic in the preview options. While with Google, this initiates a Google search, Kagi could take a different approach and send users directly to a popular information source (like Wikipeda). As long as it's clear where you will be heading, this could be a cool feature and a cost-saver all in one.

EDIT: Preview suggestions could also be configurable or simply based on what is set up under "search with..."

Vlad

Kagibeh Cna you share more information about this? Do you mean this feature?

carl

Kagibeh What about preview suggestions? A lot of people probably (ab)use search because they only half remember an URL they would easily recognize if they'd be given the option to click on it in a dropdown.

This is built into every browser. For example on Safari you will always get the most common website as a suggestion when typing into the URL bar, even if you don't have the site in your bookmarks or history.

Kagibeh

Vlad Ok, I realize I didn't do my homework properly - my apologies.

I wasn't even aware that Kagi could do this, because I do 95% of my searches from the browser search bar. In Edge, there are no preview suggestions when you search from the search bar. Just installed Kagi search in Firefox to confirm this: no preview suggestions in the search bar. When I switch to Google as the default search, I am getting those.

In response to carl's post: None of the browsers I mentioned gives me URL suggestions. I type "twitter" and Kagi suggests searching "twitter video downloader". Nobody - neither the browser nor Kagi - suggests visiting twitter.com directly.

carl

Which browsers did you mention? Safari will suggest the most likely web page always, while Chrome and Firefox will suggest from your bookmarks and history. That covers most people, unless the user deliberately configures their browser to disable suggestions.

Kagibeh

carl Carl, you seem to mean well, but your replies to my posts are typically a mix of denying, ignoring and twisting what I wrote. Please don't do this. Unless Vlad needs more info, I honestly don't have more to say about this.

carl

That's an aggressive and rude response. If there's something I've misunderstood I apologise, but in my experience most mainstream browsers will suggest any domain you have in your history or in your bookmarks when you start typing – unless you turn off history and also do not bookmark any page you frequently visit.

For example if you have visited Twitter once, next time you write "tw" in the URL bar, the browser will suggest twitter.com

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