I was trying to search for "@home". It sent me to the Kagi search home page. This happened whether i used my browser search bar or the home page. Putting my query in quotes gave me results.
I expected to get a search result page, or a notification that i had used some keyword or search parameter wrong. Maybe @ does do something specific but i cant find any info in the documentation nor forums about it. Is this even a bug?
It seems like replacing the ! With @ in any bang causes a redirection to the Kagi search home page
Hey all - we soft launched a new feature where, for example, @r query searches for query site:reddit.com instead of redirecting to reddit itself. This works automatically for every bang.
From a feature request here:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/1231-search-operator-for-site-filtering-via-existing-bang-shortcuts-bongs
It's a good question what should occur when no query is present. Right now we have a pending change that will search simply for site:reddit.com with no additional terms, so it is a bit more clear.
In the meantime, yes, it can be "escaped" with either quotes or placing something like . in front of the terms, which I imagine will not affect the results much. An additional step we could do that comes to mind is adding a setting for this behavior if its too intrusive.
But we are open to your feedback - what do you think?
Oh, thats a very cool feature! I am using it immediately.
In that case, hmm, thats a tough one. I imagine there will be documentation eventually of this feature. If there was earlier, i wouldnt have made this post. So i dont think anything needs to be done. But i do like:
Right now we have a pending change that will search simply for site:reddit.com with no additional terms, so it is a bit more clear.
I think that would be much more useful and consistent.
Or, perhaps making @r search for "@r" as a raw query, bc what is the likelihood of someone wanting to just search "site:reddit.com"
We thought about that but it may be confusing if you search for @r and it goes through, but then you do @r thing and now the query completely changes and applies the site: operator.
It also allows for some discoverability, since in the original post they would've went to the search page with the site: operator applied and realize that it does something like that.
We are open to feedback though, of course!
eirk You should try it, its interesting what Kagi pulls up.
