Results don't align with region (Québec subjects don't show up when set in region "Canada")

fmg

(This might apply to other regions, though.)

When searching for Québec-themed subjects when the regional parameter is set to "Canada", results are of poor quality : the official website is often buried, sometimes obvious results are missing.

Here are a few examples that, I hope, show it :

Québec Science is a popular scientific magazine. Its website (quebecscience.qc.ca) doesn't show up when searching with https://kagi.com/search?q=qu%C3%A9bec+science&r=ca, but is the first result for https://kagi.com/search?q=qu%C3%A9bec+science&r=no_region . I thought it might be due to its TLD being .qc.ca.
Each election year, the Finance ministry of Québec publishes its "rapport préélectoral", a report on the state of public finances. No results for https://kagi.com/search?q=rapport+pr%C3%A9%C3%A9lectoral&r=ca, but both the official report and its analysis by the Auditor are top results for https://kagi.com/search?q=rapport+pr%C3%A9%C3%A9lectoral&r=no_region . Both these organizations' domain ends in .qc.ca.
The national power provider, Hydro-Québec, has a dedicated page for power outages ("pannes", in French). The English version is the top result for https://kagi.com/search?q=hydro+qu%C3%A9bec+pannes&r=ca, but the French page is on top for https://kagi.com/search?q=hydro+qu%C3%A9bec+pannes&r=no_region
Laurier Québec, still commonly referred to as "Place Laurier", is one of the country's largest shopping mall. When searching for https://kagi.com/search?q=place+laurier&r=ca, the official website (laurierquebec.com) if fourth. It climbs to first for https://kagi.com/search?q=place+laurier&r=no_region.
La Presse is one of the largest newspapers in Québec. https://kagi.com/search?q=la+presse&r=ca shows an infobox, but the first result is its Wikipedia pages. https://kagi.com/search?q=la+presse&r=no_region seems to show more meaningful results, like its homepage (lapresse.ca).

9rqnq

I suggest that you make your queries in French.Now there are two new regions for Canada: Canada (en) and Canada (fr). If I use this new French region, I will get the results you want for your queries.

It will help if you switch the region to Canada (fr) or add &r=ca_fr to the search URL.

You can read more about it in this discussion (at the end of it): https://kagifeedback.org/d/89-language-vs-region/51

fmg

This works, thanks!

I feel silly for not noticing the "ca_fr" region. This definitely solves my report. This is not a bug, but an error on my part.

Philippe_Choquette

There are still many queries where the expected website locale isn't pulled up.

For example, if I search for "Ooma" with my region set to "Canada (CA - fr)", the US website (.com) ranks first in the results. It's followed by the Canadian website (.ca), but it's the English version instead of the French version.

See here:
https://kagi.com/search?q=Ooma&r=ca_fr

I had to append the query with "Canada fr" to be provided with the right website URL to rank first.

Robert11

Hi,

I noticed that LaPresse.ca appears to be almost entirely missing from Kagi’s search results in Canada's region. Searching for “lapresse” does not return the official website, and searching site:lapresse.ca returns only one result from atelier.lapresse.ca.

La Presse is one of the largest news organizations in Québec and Canada, so I wanted to report this as a possible indexing issue.

By contrast, the website appears normally when searching via Google.

Thank you!

I should be able to reach for lapresse via the search bar in the Canada version.

nobodywasishere

That is.. weird. It's showing up for me for US region. It's not marked as slop and isn't in our internal badware list. Was able to reproduce with the CA-en region.

nobodywasishere

Figured out the issue. Try again.