Steps to reproduce:
Query: "tagem translation"
See odd selection of featured Wikipedia article for the Neal Stephenson book Cryptonomicon. Maybe?
There are also several other low-quality or questionable results to my query. Please see screenshot.
I am not sure if this can be reproduced … is there any kind of personalization happening behind the scenes? The reason I ask is that I happen to be "reading" this book as an audiobook, oddly enough, and I have searched Kagi for queries relating to it in the past. But based on the note in Kagi settings, search history does not factor into results.
The Wikipedia page does not contain results for "tagem" or anything relevant beginning with "tag". However, because I am listening to this audiobook, I know that there is, in fact, a fictional setting in it called "Qwglm", which is pronounced by the narrator intentionally as "Taghum" (or something phonetically similar). From an in-universe wiki entry on the subject:
Qwghlm | The Baroque Cycle Wiki | Fandom
According to the audiobook versions of The Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon, in the late 17th century "Qwghlm" was pronounced "Taghum", with stress on the second syllable. By the mid-20th century, the pronunciation had altered to something closer to "Tagh'm", with the first syllable emphasized and the second vowel almost elided.
As mentioned above, there is nothing in Wikipedia mentioning this odd (intentionally humorous) pronounciation. Is it possible that the AI somehow knows this? If so, WOW!
Expected behavior:
If the AI does know about the pronounciation due to the fandom wiki, then that should be indicated in the results somehow.
Debug info:
Firefox
macOS
United States
US-EAST
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