Reverse bangs are kind of jarring

cadawg

Steps to reproduce:
I searched "Ah! So sorry!"

Expected behavior:
To get taken to the results page

Debug info:
Europe, Firefox 113

Image/Video:

Instead, I got taken to the bang for !ah I believe. I understand if this is expected behaviour but I just found it a bit jarring as a user.

Vlad

cadawg It is the expected behavior. What do you propose?

cadawg

Ah fair enough, I always understood bangs as having an ! before the search but if this is expected behaviour no worries.

Vlad

cadawg They work with ! before or at the end of bang, and also bang can be at the end of query.

Wrongdoer0776

I do think this bang is a little aggressive. From a usability point of view, bangs should avoid conflict with existing meaningful queries. For instance, I believe most user whose search contain "ah!" meant to search verbatim instead of jump to a never-heard-of grocery shopping website which doesn't even offer service in English.

Also, I think it would be good to have a place where I can see all the built-in bangs and disable some of them. At the time being I looked at the documentation and never see such full list of bangs. At least it seems this ah bang is not mentioned at all https://help.kagi.com/kagi/index.html?search=ah.

Vlad

Wrongdoer0776 Hm you are right, DDG does not seem to redirect for "Ah! So sorry" we can try to figure out why