Add an option to disable Wolfram Alpha as a source only

frin

I often get some obscure answers from Wolfram Alpha which make no sense, and I really don't like its feature set.

I would like to disable its source, and it alone.

There should be an option to toggle on/off just Wolfram Alpha, I think it would fit the most under Search Widgets.

If a LLM were queried first to see if it is a math problem, and only then hand it over to Wolfram Alpha, that would be doable, but in its current form, it's too intrusive, distracting and counterproductive.

hyperbit

After searching for "pinetime" and then getting an entry for "PingTime" courtesy of Wolfram Alpha, I went to search for a way to disable this integration, because I don't remember enabling it, nor is it particularly useful to me; I find it distracting.

So, I emailed support. They said its not possible and linked to this post telling me to "vote for the feature." What an anti-pattern to introduce (or rather force) a feature, then provide no way to turn said feature off. I'd expect that sort of behavior from big tech. If I wanted a non-deterministic, possibly accurate result, I'd query an LLM myself.

For anyone else encountering this frustration, a simple uBlock filter was enough to fix this annoying Wolfram Alpha slop for me:

kagi.com##.wolfram-full-results

I just expected better from Kagi, is all.