Lenses not working with quoted keywords

riddley

Steps to reproduce:
Create a lens and in the field Include pages containing these keywords (up to 5) add a keyword or phrase surrounded by double quotes, e.g.

"manual transmission"

or just

"manual"

Run a search with the lens. Kagi returns There are no results for all searches

Expected behavior:
Get search results that include the quoted phrase as if it had been typed in the search bar

System info:
Safari/MacOS/ASIA-EAST

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z64

riddley I can't seem to repro this as described. Is this keyword setting the only option you have for the lens? What queries have you tried?

I have tried a few, and while there is a bug here with how we pass the keywords, I consistently get results:

I will fix the &quot business, but if there is anything else you can add to reproduce not getting any results at all, that would be helpful.

z64

riddley Which search region are you using? I see you're using the ASIA-EAST node in your report, but perhaps the chosen search region is misbehaving? I tried a few regions on ASIA-EAST without issue however.

riddley

z64 Sorry I never saw your reply, but I assume you were able to replicate it as Vlad has marked it as done?

For the record, I think what was happening is that Kagi was searching for the literal string " in the query string, instead of using the quote as an operator

z64

riddley No worries. We couldn't reproduce it (specifically getting zero results) with the given instructions - presumed something else might of fixed it incidentally.

Although I did notice " in some snippets that I did get, so maybe there is something to that.

I will check on that at some point but please feel free to follow up with any examples to test, especially if you can still reproduce not getting any results.

riddley

Ok, can I clarify something, if I put a phrase with quotes in it in the keywords field of a lens, I expect Kagi to search for it as a phrase, the same as if I typed it in the search box, not to search for literal quotes in the page text?

Is that what should be happening?

My guess is that you are improperly escaping the quotes in the keywords field and therefore searching for quote symbols on the page, or perhaps unescaped HTML or something like that. That would explain why some searches return odd looking results (because they happen to have quote symbols), and others like my example return nothing (because there happen to be no matching results that have quote symbols).