Update Verbatim Search help page

kslays

I want some words required in the text of the results, and other words optional. Take the following search for example:
(feelgood OR ruby) AND doctor AND beatles

This search yields the following page as the 8th result, which does not contain either "feelgood" nor "ruby":
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/who-was-the-beatles-doctor-robert/

The search should result in the pages containing "doctor", "beatles", and either "feelgood", "ruby", or both. No results should be given that are missing the word doctor, are missing the word beatles, or are missing either feelgood or ruby.

Adding Verbatim mode yields no results. Is that mode exclusively an AND search for all keywords? If so, I can suggest an addition to the Kagi docs, because presently they do not describe how Verbatim works at all.

Luis

Verbatim searches look for the exact sentence you enter. For example, a page must contain the phrase "(feelgood OR ruby) AND doctor AND beatles" exactly as written to appear in the results.

You can use the Advanced Search option for more complex queries, though it doesn't support multiple inputs for verbatim searches. If I understood you correctly, this is the search you were looking for:

We will improve our documentation to clearly explain the concept of Verbatim search.

kslays

The verbatim help page update would be very helpful, thanks. As I understand it now, verbatim search is synonymous with an exact phrase search. The same results should occur by quoting the whole search string, right?

However, my issue is primarily with search operators, especially mixed Boolean AND and OR searches with parentheses. The major search engines seem not to respect the AND and OR searches. Kagi seems a little better but still isn't perfect. For example, the following search:
Le +"Creuset" Signature Cast Iron Round French Oven Casserole +("30cm" OR "30 cm") +"satin"

I often open the page, and search for the keyword "satin" or "30cm" (or "30 cm") and it's not there. Is it possible that it's hidden in CSS or HTML, or an old version of the page, and not findable with the web browser?

Also, are the quote and + redundant? Or does the quote prevent variations on the word such as plural and the plus require it to be present in the page?

The search operators help page could be clarified. For example:
AND — Finds webpages that contain all the terms or phrases, for example: sweaters (christmas AND ugly)

Does this mean results will be given that do not contain "sweaters", equivalent to the following?
sweaters +christmas +ugly

Are all search terms flexible unless using search operators? This is the help page that could use a lot more detail:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/search-operators.html