Add multiple pages of results

haginile

Steps to reproduce:

Perform any search such as "Apple"
Only one page of result is returned. When I look at the html markup, "load_more_results" is labeled "hidden".

Expected behavior:
There should be countless pages of results.

Debug info:
Happens on botrh Safari & Chrome, MacOS 12.3.1
US-EAST

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z64

haginile This is currently working as intended. See: https://kagi.com/faq#relevance

But I will note that we are exploring adding pagination.

haginile

Hi @z64. Thanks for the fast response! Just to confirm, if I search "Apple," a total of 15 results are returned and there's no page 2, and pretty much no result related to the fruit Apple. This is the expected behavior? I imagine at least "Apple - Wikipedia" should be included?

z64

haginile

Just to confirm, if I search "Apple," a total of 15 results are returned and there's no page 2, and pretty much no result related to the fruit Apple.

Yes; no major search engine will return a result related to the fruit in the first page.

By my testing:

https://www.google.com/search?q=apple - not until halfway down the 2nd page
https://www.bing.com/search?q=apple - I gave up after page 7
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apple - I gave up after page 4, they use Bing results

Even when/if we add pagination, Apple-the-company has completely dominated this term in search indexes, so this probably won't change.

So it is in-line with our current ethos to return only the most relevant results to your search with as little fluff as possible for a query like "apple"

haginile

z64 Understood. Thank you!

haginile

@z64 So I'd argue there's actually some reason to show as many results as possible. I think I do is there's a specific query that shows some PDFs. I'd run this query every month or so and download all the PDFs related to this query. This is not possible with Kagi right now.

handsel

haginile So I'd argue there's actually some reason to show as many results as possible.

I would prefer that. I don't like when companies are trying to be smarter than me, it never works. I would like to see as many results as possible, sorted by relevancy.

insomnia-creator

There are instances where someone would wish to see more results, relevant or not. In which case I suggest you add a 'Load more search results' button so that it gives more results. Do add a header saying that 'Results are not necessarily relevant or trustworthy after this section'.

cayhorstmann

Hi, I've used Kagi for a couple of months as my default search engine and am generally satisfied. But sometimes I turn back to Google when Kagi gives me a page of results with no obvious way of getting more. Take for example a recent query: https://kagi.com/search?q=tomcat+loom+java

There are sixteen results, all appropriate, but Google shows many more, many bad. Still, I often find what I need in an obscure result a few pages down. So, I'd like an option to explore the less-good matches. It seems that it would also give you good feedback to know when you need to try harder.

gesumin

Kagi's logic is that you'd change your query if you didn't find it in the initial results (e.g. work with "" or other operators, ...). Exploring the less-good matches is no bad idea either though, but I wouldn't call it "trying harder"

Vlad

This is planned and will be added.

kelll

No matter what I search, there is only one page search result. How can I go to the next page？

Vlad

kelll Note that Kagi shows 25-50 results on one page which is equivalent of 3-6 pages of Google results. If you do no find what you are looking for, it is likely that you are better of changing the query.

NoGoogle

Vlad I'd like to add that I also support this very much as I too switch back to Bing/Google to finish the same search for more results hidden a few pages back, however I also don't want to see Kagi stray away from taking the beautiful concept of quality over quantity to the next level by actually limiting search results instead of it just being a marketing phrase. It's this concept of limiting search results that made me absolutely fall in love with Kagi when I first saw it unlike Google's focus on providing millions.

As Kagi's search quality improves over time, I would actually love to see the day where Kagi only shows you 5 insanely best of the best search results and nothing more. It'd be cool/interesting to see Kagi slowly reducing total search results shown year after year as Kagi's quality improves. Sort of like milestones for advancing search quality instead of limiting them from the start.

Vlad

NoGoogle We will probably add an option for "More results" that will spit out another 50-60 results (in one page) to atisfy the eneds of many users who upvoted this (and there is a very strong habit to overcome too).