Low quality translated Reddit results

bram

Since the beginning of the month, I've noticed that Kagi started including translated results from Reddit in my search results. I have my region set to NL on Kagi, and in some (but not all cases), this results in Reddit posts with a ?tl=nl query parameter.

These results are problematic for a few reasons:

Duplicate results, but in a different language
The translations are low-quality
Misleading results when searching for non-English posts

The following search shows the problem:
https://kagi.com/search?q=metal+archives+between+the+buried+and+me&r=nl&sh=df4m9tas0K9zw38ULZ-yzA

The third result first shows an English Reddit post, which is followed by the exact same post, but with the ?tl=NL query parameter:

I expected these translated results to not get indexed at all. I have searched Discord for a potential fix, but did not find a way that cleans up my search results (other than blocking the domain altogether).

bram

I wrote the following CSS snippet that hides the translated results if the URL contains reddit.com and tl=:

.__srgi:has(a[href*="reddit.com"][href*="tl="]) {
    display: none;
}

This hides translated sub-results (like in the screenshot above). I will update the CSS if I encounter different cases.

carl

bram Very nice!

Luis

Hi. We were able to reproduce this issue a week ago, but now we can't. Please inform us if you encounter any other similar examples. I'll mark this thread as nofix for now

Rediwed

Luis I have run into the same issue a couple times. However, not always do I get it in the same way as the OP. In my case, sometimes I search in Dutch to get localized results. I then get only the Dutch translated result, not the original English post.

This is really annoying, because it makes me think that I am looking at a local result, while it is in fact not local.

Example:

Connected to: EUROPE-WEST2
Search link is: https://kagi.com/search?q=bluesky+servers+in+Nederland%3F
It will be happening with the fifth link.

Luis

Rediwed I was able to reproduce, thanks! We'll look into it

timo

I use this rewrite rule: ^https://www.reddit.com/(.*)\?tl=.*|https://www.reddit.com/$1?tl=

You can set it at https://kagi.com/settings?p=redirects

Thibaultmol

Steam is also doing it, it seems:

the top result is https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33656298-Party-Games-Online-W-Friends/
the bottom result is https://store.steampowered.com/curator/33656298-Party-Games-Online-W-Friends/?l=dutch