Elevated ranking adjustment can be too aggressive

jose-elias-alvarez

As I'm sure many developers do, I use Kagi's ranking adjustment feature to raise the prominence of GitHub results, which usually works well but occasionally leads to poor ranking. Here is a recent search that seemed so obviously "wrong" that it motivated me to open this report (though it's not the first time):

The top result isn't even related to 1Password, and the project isn't even especially popular, so I'm not sure how it made it to the top: https://github.com/CatchTheTornado/doctor-dok

For comparison, these are the results for Bitwarden, which are in line with what I'd expect:

Results that are self-evidently the most relevant for a given search term (e.g. official websites) are ranked first, regardless of ranking adjustment (unless the user deliberately blocks / pins a given site).

Vlad

jose-elias-alvarez Did you use raise or pin?

slamor

For better control, depending on how much we want to raise or lower, there may be a scale from 1 to 10, for example.

gladiator2339

This is the problem that my suggestion (gladiator2339) can solve.

jose-elias-alvarez

Vlad I used raise (same settings for both screenshots).

For the other comments: I agree that finer control over ranking could be helpful, but at the same time, the discrepancy between the two examples I posted seems strange.

andyrew1

I have this same problem all the time when Github is raised. I will get Github results that may be adjacently related to that company or product (could even be 10 year old projects) before the actual companies website, which I guess I asked for with raise, but I don't actually want since this is not a pin.