Inform user on misspelled words

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When a misspelled word is entered, seems like Kagi searches for the correct word, but does not inform the user. In comparison, when you your query is misspelled, Google has the "Did you mean X" notification on top.

You can see the difference in the screenshot.

I use search engines to spell check words (I know, it's stupid) or get their definition (i.e. define x in Google will provide the definition). When I have a typo, I'd like the search engine to inform me when they provide the "corrected" word. In case of Google, they provide that "Did you mean X?" or "Showing result of X" as they show you the right result. But Kagi just show you the right result without telling you they've fixed the word for you.

Vlad

null We usually do this, can you find a few more examples where this does not happen so we can ivnestigate?

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Sure thing. These all have typos in them.

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Looks like when I append the query with "define" in front of it, it does show that the word was misspelled.

Compare these two:

More examples:

But not always (using "define" but does not show the typo):

Another exception (no "define", but shows the typo):

zam

Unsure if this is intended behavior.

One word, no correction.

Multiple words, correction.

One word, no correction.

Multiple words, correction.

Correct my spelling even for one word searches.

kagicat

Here is an example from a few days ago that did not tell me at all that the spelling was corrected.

Vapid

When I used Google, I would when on other websites trying to type things, enter a word I was unsure how to spell into my browser's search bar and Google would display the correct spelling with the same casing as I searched in in an easily copyable format.

Kagi does this sometimes but has on multiple occasions failed to do so when Google would.

Just today I was trying to spell Unconsciously so I searched for "Unconscionculy" without getting the correct spelling prompted:

Google does it the way I would expect:

Kagi does show results that have the correct spellings, but Google makes it much easier to find a copyable version of the text than Kagi does.

I would like if Kagi was greedier when it came to correcting my terrible spelling 🙂

iamadam

Vapid This would be wonderful to have. I can't spell to save my life, so I always used Google to help.

kagicat

+1000
As someone with both dyslexia and dysgraphia, I have conditioned myself to search for words when I am not sure if I'm spelling them correctly (usually when I am working on something that does not have built-in spellcheck)
If the UI doesn't point out that the query was misspelled, I won't realize due to the dyslexia making it hard to compare the spelling of words.

For example from today: unless I look really closely these look the same to me, so I thought I had spelled it correctly only to have got an unexpected keyword argument 'tempurature' bite me an hour later lol

I've have been loving my experience with Kagi, but this is one place where it is biting me 🙁

silvenga

kagicat As a human that can't spell, I do the exact same thing and have the exact same problem 😆

Related - auto-complete handling of misspellings, I got in the habit of using Google's auto-complete system to do corrections for me (without even opening the web page). Kagi's autocomplete is much less permissive:

Google auto-complete typically provides a flow to correct the spelling of the word, inline.

funlamp0194

With how often I use Kagi and those that came before it for this exact purpose, I even feel like there should be !spell or !check bang for this

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Hey all,

I believe this should be working as intended now.
I went through and tried the examples and received a correction for each one.

I am going to mark it as completed, please don't hesitate to comment if it's still not working for some case so we can look into it.

Thank you!