When searching for images in Japanese (Hiragana and Katakana), the search results may include approximately 10 unrelated photos of women. There are no problems when searching with Kanji.
Changing the Region, Safe Search, and Image Safe Search settings did not significantly change the search results.
This issue does not occur with Google and DuckDuckGo.
Steps to reproduce:
As an example, search for 南瓜
(kabocha, meaning pumpkin) using Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
Search for かぼちゃ
(with Hiragana. Screenshot has been blurred.)
https://kagi.com/images?q=%E3%81%8B%E3%81%BC%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83
Search for カボチャ
(with Katakana. Screenshot has been blurred.)
https://kagi.com/images?q=%E3%82%AB%E3%83%9C%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3
Search for 南瓜
(with Kanji)
https://kagi.com/images?q=%E5%8D%97%E7%93%9C
Search for pumpkin
(with English)
https://kagi.com/images?q=pumpkin
Here are some other queries that reproduced the same problem. I suppose that there are still other queries that.
Hiragana
さつまいも
(sweet potato)
こうじげんば
(site of construction)
れいぞうこ
(refrigerator)
Katakana
エアコン
(air-conditioner)
アイフォーン
(iPhone)
Expected behavior:
Images that are significantly different from the search query will not be displayed.
Debug info:
Chrome/Firefox, macOS, ASIA-EAST