Add seting for grouping/ungrouping results as a part of Search page in Settings

whs

When searching, results in the same site are grouped. There's usually 2 subresults from the same site (so 3 results max from one website)

I wish the grouping is removed for two reasons:

Each individual results should be ranked separately. They may have different relevancy and should be sorted accordingly instead of getting boosted to the top by the site's primary result

In this search result for "trails from zero elie" the first result is relevant (it goes to the correct character), but the subresult is not exactly relevant so it should rank further down.

The cap on site subresults should be increased. As each individual results are ranked for relevancy separately, I think it's ok for a site to have several results especially for multicommunity sites like StackOverflow or reddit. Maybe cap to some % of search result page size.

whs

Seems like a generalization of https://kagifeedback.org/d/149-github-repos-from-different-orgs-should-not-fold-as-subresults

Yiin

Vlad Personally, that would work great, but it would be nice to not have it buried deep in settings for easy toggle.
Also as noted in the thread linked by whs , the current workaround is to include site:github.com or similar, if searching for results specifically on that website:

Yiin

Agree, on some sites grouping is specifically annoying, e.g. GitHub, where same keywords can be found on issues in completely unrelated repos, but grouped as if they're from same project.

An option to ungroup results for specific list of sites (e.g. by regex) would be amazing.

seventhwave

I strongly support these observations.
Another usability problem (real for me) is the section title.
On the reader mind, the HTML title of the first result become the "section summary"; in the Yiin screenshot, the standard user thinks that "Filtering on relations breaks pagination" is the title/matter of all the links below from github.com... and obviously isn't true, but it's misleading.
Another thing I thought was "is this more important than others? does this link has a parent-child relationship?"
You can see that this is a modeling problem, not only a usability one.

If you'd have to choose only beetwen grouped and ungrouped...I'd surely go for "ungrouped": this is the common experience, has a simpler mental model, is lighter on resources for the project, has an immediate comprehension. Last but not least, it's also open to add a "result grouping" setting for people when and if you'll decide to.

Thanks

Vlad

Yiin Per site setting sounds like a very niche use case. Would you be satisfied with a global group/ungroup results preference? @whs

fbruch

The grouping of results from one site is fine for me. The position of the site in the result list should be determined by its single most relevant link, as it is now, I assume. Just as seventhwave mentioned, the most relevant result of one site maybe should not be shown as the parent of the other results. Instead it could be the first child, below a root which represents the site as a whole and is no result itself.
I could imagine a setting to limit the amount of results being grouped per site. Setting this limit to 0 could disable grouping altogether.

laserson

(Kagi n00b here)

Is there a way to change the grouping setting on a per-lense basis? Normally I want grouped results, but when I use academic search, I don't want all the results from, say, nature.com to be grouped together.

Separately, I see this issue has been marked as "Done", but it's not clear to me how to use this feature now. Is it documented somewhere? Perhaps that can be added to this thread?

z64

Hi,laserson

Is there a way to change the grouping setting on a per-lense basis? Normally I want grouped results, but when I use academic search, I don't want all the results from, say, nature.com to be grouped together.

Currently there isn't a setting for this for lenses. Please feel free to search for an existing suggestion & upvote it, or open a new one 😺

Separately, I see this issue has been marked as "Done", but it's not clear to me how to use this feature now. Is it documented somewhere? Perhaps that can be added to this thread?

You can find the setting added by this ticket on your Search Settings:

Mentioned in our Documentation here.