Option to permanently enable Verbatim search

rosstcarter

Steps to reproduce:
Perform a search. Choose Verbatim. Open a new browser window or tab and perform another search. The search mode has been reset to All Results.

Expected behavior:
Choosing Verbatim ought to persist. I never want fuzzy matching; I want it turned off permanently on all my searches, rather than having to re-enable it every time.

Debug info:
Safari/Mac OS 12.3.1/US/US Central

Image/Video:
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Vlad

I assume all other options should behave in the same way (changes saved across sessions/devices)

randomClay

Steps to reproduce:
My example is while searching “the poem of nuestra signora”, this is a pretty straightforward album title, and it's an unique combination, no other entity have the same name.

As in the search result shown in the screenshot, Google's top 4 results are from discogs.com, rateyourmusic.com (two music databases), Amazon and aquariusagerecords.com (sites selling this album), this is accurate and expected.

However in Kagi, The first result is somehow from posts.org (which is the 5th in Google after image results), only matches “nuestra signora” in the search phrase, and the third one is from Tripadvisor, matches the phrase with two separated parts of random addresses.

Expected behavior:
My guess is Kagi might took the “poem” from the search phrase and interprets this search as an intention of searching something related to poems (results in bumping the result from poet.org), but in anyways I think the discogs.com and rateyourmusic.com result should be the obvious best matches.

Debug info:
Connected to: ASIA-SOUTHEAST
C/R: International

Vlad

randomClay I get somewhat different results from USA, but yes it seems that some of them are bit too broad.

In cases like this "Verbatim" mode can help

Currently I do not have other ideas how to go about this because in many other cases being exploratory is good (even here I was searching for this it would be ok that I found out there was this hotel that has distant relevance to my query - as long as I found what I am searching for in the results page)

randomClay

Interesting, I agree that the overall result is good, maybe consider add an option to make the Verbatim mode as default? Not my case but maybe some Paranoia user would prefer that, and I can see no harm having more options.

Vlad

randomClay If you select Verbatim, it will "stay" selected making it default. Unlesss you think there should be an option in Settings (my concern is people will turn it on and it will seriously limit the number and scope of results)

1player

Vlad It should be an option, as described in https://kagifeedback.org/d/518-option-to-permanently-enable-verbatim-search

If I search for two words, I want only results containing those two words, not just one or the other.