The new AI icon being displayed on all search result entries look unpleasant on mobile, as it sometimes gets too close with the search result's title.
Perhaps there's another way to display those, instead of always taking up limited real estate on mobile devices?
I'm a power user who values aesthetics. The third button beside individual search results felt jarring on mobile today.
I never use the shield icon. (My privacy protections and common sense safeguard my privacy.)
Suggestion: Give the shield icon a name and bury the icon under the three dots menu (the second icon). That way, only the AI and three dots icons remain. In general, rethink the need for three separate icons.
yokoffing The shield icon has a purpose of indicating websites with trackers, etc.
I believe it's better to keep those indicators available on the mobile UI too.
Maybe we can go the other way around and bury the AI features inside the three dots dropdown?
IIRC AI features were originally buried there before the update.
The shield icon has a purpose of indicating websites with trackers, etc.
Oh, I know. I generally don't care because I have a lot of privacy protections. But that's just my use case.
The only occasionally useful feature of the shield is website ranking for search results.
Maybe we can go the other way around and bury the AI features inside the three dots dropdown?
I use those the AI features almost daily, whereas I almost never use the options under the three dots and the shield icons.
IIRC AI features were originally buried there before the update.
Yeah, that's how it was done before today's update.
yokoffing Yeah, I think the average non tech savvy user would appreciate the occasional orange shield icon (e.g. Kagi for Kids/grandparents. Teaching them to avoid visiting sites with orange shield should be way easier than teaching them how to differentiate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ sites.)
I don’t see much disadvantage on burying the AI actions on 3-dot dropdown menu again, as it’s still two clicks away. Whereas moving the shield icon would remove the ‘orange shield’ feature.
Hello, Tamara from the design team here. Thank you for the feedback 
We're currently in the process of enhancing the mobile user experience by organizing all icons under a mobile-friendly menu, accessible via touch gestures. This approach aims to prioritize user focus on results while retaining and enhancing functionality across our tools and options for a more personalized search experience.
yokoffing I like that you offer which features you use more & which less . I reflect that I use a different feature set: never using the AI; but I very frequently alter search rankings
tangential idea: with everybody ranking websites, I imagine that Kagi has a growing database that, maybe in time, can be used to mitigate the ‘enshitification’ of the internet — the phenomenon whereby most search results are low-quality, ad-filled click bait
now back to the affordances relating to each search result & the associated icon signifiers . so Kagi is a fun new search engine that — this is how I see it — is not against innovative ideas . why not have customizability around what icon is displayed?
and as for the shield, the AI icon, and the triple dot: on desktop the only icon that affords simply hovering, not clicking, to access its function, is the shield icon . this is great . as I said, I use this feature quite a lot . the other icons — the AI icon & the triple dot — you have to click . I’m not saying that’s good or bad . what I do want to say is, why not have one icon that you hover over, which displays a pop-over, which has all the features there? . this suggestion comes from reflecting that it’s easy for icons to multiply in a product, cluttering the interface . there is no reason I can divine as to why the triple-dot, and the AI icon, are ‘their own thing’
and a final idea — I know this is not the place for ideas; but hopefully this may be in some way helpful — regards the issue originally raised, that the AI icon gets too close to the text . this is an easy change that makes for a much better user experience: put the triple dot on the left (then the AI icon, then the shield icon)
rmschindler I'm pretty sure they'll come up with a different design
themetamy We're currently in the process of enhancing the mobile user experience by organizing all icons under a mobile-friendly menu, accessible via touch gestures.
, but placing the triple dot on the left wouldn't fix any problems on mobile, as they take up the same width in the current implementation (display all three icons at all times).
For people who want to have a 'solution' before the fix gets rolled out:
You can add the following to your custom css in the kagi settings.
#icon_new_ia {
display: none;
}This will hide this new icon, but you can still click on the place where the icon was and see the dropdown, this way it does not destroy the search page design and you can still use the things from the dropdown if you want to.
(This is a related design issue for desktop: https://kagifeedback.org/d/3953-the-ai-icon-that-appears-when-hovering-over-a-search-result-is-affecting-text-layout)
I'm personally not against having few icons next to result titles but the new AI icon looks just like fediverse logo. I thought it was related to fediverse first time I saw the newly updated icon.
Please don’t hide the shield button. I look at it all the time to see if I ranked a page.
As we are talking about UI / UX, I agree with not hiding the shield button, but having it popup a text on hover on desktop is (at least for me) very annoying because I trigger that too often not on purpose. Or else the text could vanish when the mouse get out of its area? At the moment one is obliged to click on the close button to make the text disappear.
I'd like an option to disable this button that shows up next to search results. This applies to both Desktop and Mobile.
If a user doesn't have a need for the AI features and/or finds its presence distracting they shouild have an option to disable button.
An option to include the AI features unter the dotted Button would be nice.
OverBridges For anything visual in Kagi you do not need to wait for a dedicated option, just kill anything you do not like with custom CSS.
#icon_new_ia {
display: none;
}sefidel you're right 
️ here it is