Wolfram|Alpha integration feedback

Value7609

Shouldn't trigger wolfram alph

fiatjaf

I wish I could see Wolfram|Alpha widgets in the results page instead of just in the Kagi landing page while typing a query, since I type my searches mostly on the browser toolbar and get sent straight to the results page.

This screen has it:

This doesn't:

Vapid

fiatjaf You can see it on the results page too, but you have to click the search field. I too wish it was just a widget on the page

Rudotel

ValPolyakh WA does have a strange way of disambiguating the terms...

Rudotel

RichardoC

Again, WA not taking many chances...

bert

Currently WA takes up a lot of space at the top of the search results and often provides useless info. I would say that for anything other than basic math, unit conversion, and maybe some ”plain facts” (e.g., biographical info about famous people, geography facts, historical facts (if WA supports that)), WA should not be used, and Kagi should either create its own widget for the most common requests (currency conversion and stocks with a graph over time would be nice) or just link to an appropriate source.

larocque

I really appreciate that Wolfram Alpha is used for these types of queries because:

It is very good at parsing technical language / units / math even when it is typed on a keyboard without formatting. It effortlessly understands, for example, that the query "25 m/s/s to ft/h/h" is requesting velocity conversion. It interprets "integral from 2 to 5 of x²+3x" or "density of steam at 150c and 2atm" correctly. It understands chemical equations, units, all kinds of things.
Its knowledge base is very wide-ranging. I can ask it about the densities of food oil or motor oil. I can ask about the strength of different alloys of steel. I can ask about calculus or physics. I can even ask how old the president of China is or when the super bowl is!
The information it provides is very reliable. There is no junk. Sometimes it fails to interpret your query correctly so it answers a question you didn't ask, but the knowledge it has is very trustworthy.
Wolfram Alpha is better in each of these areas than almost anything on the internet (the things that are better are generally behind a paywall). Nothing is better at all three simultaneously, even products that cost money (which are generally much more specialized). And these are the exact things it is important to be good it if you are populating the info box for a search engine.

There are also a few issues with Wolfram Alpha, mostly that it can misinterpret your query one way or another, which have been covered extensively in this thread.

But I also have one issue with how the Wolfram Alpha integration is implemented. If I type "0.4 m/s/s to ft/h/h" into Kagi, I get an answer in the units I wanted: feet per hour per hour. But I cannot verify that my question was interpreted correctly. I cannot verify that it correctly interpreted "0.4 m/s/s" to mean "0.4 meters per second per second". I would like to see a portion of the widget dedicated to showing how the query was interpreted, like on the Wolfram Alpha website or on Google.

I have attached screenshots of Kagi, Google, and Wolfram Alpha for comparison.

tempname1024

A search for the book "The Children of Men" erroneously invokes the Wolfram widget.

tempname1024

Text overflow in the feedback window breaks at the letter, rather than the word ([...] l-ooking for).

low-key

The integration currently handles queries such as "100 days from now". Would be nice and intuitive if it could also handle queries such as "How many days until August 11" or "Days until August 11".

frin

I just got "= Saga, Japan" for prompt "commonwealth saga".

It is completely unrelated, Saga might be Japanese location, but commonwealth has absolutely nothing to do with Japan. Wolfram Alpha should not interfere with such a prompt.

In general I always found Wolfram Alpha to be too wacky, it tries to find links where no sane person would find them. Wolfram Alpha should only be used for math (formulas and calculations). Personally I would just like to shut it off.

[deleted]

When you search for the age of a person it shows the age with a ' = '

In my opinion it would look a lot better without the ' = '

coinsharp123_89320

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_country
If you search "when did x happen?", the result will always be in MDY format, even though most users outside of America don't use this format.

There also may be other date issues such as "December 20" instead of "20th December"

I live outside America, so I was expecting DMY, very minor issue.

azdanov

https://kagi.com/search?q=pop+os

It's cool to know the population of Os in Norway, but I wasn't looking for that 😄

gtirloni

My search query was "kenya timezone" and I got this from Kagi:

This is the same query in WolframAlpha:

So I understood that the "{3}" is trying to communicate "UTC+3" but that wasn't clear to me before.

Non-cryptic answer.

Value7609

Wolfram Alpha feedback should go to this mega thread:

https://kagifeedback.org/d/3422-wolframalpha-integration-feedback/

Prostagma

Searching “where was kamaru usman born” provides what I would consider an odd answer, providing a random YouTube video on his beef with Colby Covington, a broken link(links to “hound://textsearch?q=Benin%20City”) and then it has the text “More…” but it’s just text, not clickable.

Not to mention that the answer is wrong. Many sources, including Wikipedia, indicate Kamaru Usman was born in Auchi, Edo, Nigeria. Not Benin, Edo, Nigeria.

Fracture

I saw the blogpost about wolphramAlpha and I tried it and got bugs. Do I have to enable it somewhere?

1) I am not getting the rich summary box

2) The instant summary box works for some search terms but not others

Firefox 128.0.3
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