Reward websites that answer a question in their title or page summary, by letting us easily mark the result as useful.
Have a button next to search results (thumbs up, star, etc) to mark a result as useful. This is different than flagging the entire website as prioritized.
When the answer is in the result summary, it is more helpful than needing to click into their site.
Example: "sunrise mountain view ca"
One of the results shows the answer in the search-result summary. This is all I needed, I don't need to click through. We
But if we don't click something, how does kagi know which search results were helpful, and which to show more often?
Right now, this can somewhat be accomplished by clicking the shield icon, and marking the website as higher priority. This is a brilliant feature. But I want to reward just one search result, not the website. I have no idea if the website is good or accurate, because I didn't click through. Maybe it has the right answer in the summary, but the site itself is full of AI garbage or unpleasant somehow. I don't necessarily want to prioritize a website for having good summaries.
This button would encourage a healthy ecosystem. If websites make their content easily summarized, and if kagi can prioritize those results, it makes things much faster for search users. If the data is useful, users will click through to those sites more often.
The alternative is what Google did. They summarized the data from multiple websites, and provide the answer without the context of where it came from. This was convenient for users, but it steals clicks away from websites. It also makes knowledge the proprietary asset of the search engine.
The economics:
Sites hide the answers to simple questions in order to encourage clicking-through to drive advertising.
If the answer is in the title, the search engine makes one query to get the data (and occasional queries to check for updates). This provides many users with the answer, without needing more queries. So it helps people find simple answers without creating more traffic. But for this to work financially, those sites need to get some benefit.
Adding a button to flag useful results will boost the websites which make this easier.
This will also help reduce the number or websites that use long, AI-generated articles to answer simple questions. They are gaming googles algorithm, and it's hurting everyone.
And, it reduces the need for Kagi to develop their own summary
Next to each search result, add a button (star?) to mark the result as useful.
Options could include: star, thumbs up, up-arrow, with a mouse-over saying "flag as useful".
A graphics design / UX expert would know best that would work.
A quick example of what it could look like:
