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Using the site: operator to limit results to those from a specific website doesn't always work when doing image searches.

See example search, for "site:wikimedia.org triage icon svg":
https://kagi.com/images?q=site%3Awikimedia.org+triage+icon+svg&r=no_region&sh=DZU846mWGOV2vyVnvMpU7Q

A number of results from other domains appear, like reddit.com, brandfetch.com etc.

(Interesting aside: with using the share link, different results were shown when I tested the shared link in a non-logged-in browser!)
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When using site: operator, that only results from that site/domain are shown.

    8 days later

    https://kagi.com/changelog#6052

    I dunno, it still seems to be happening for me. Still reproducible with the example search, and other variations with 3 search terms, e.g. "site:wikimedia.org triage icons png" etc. - maybe that's a clue?

      It's an odd one, I was trying to find some similar examples using terms like yours.

      I happened to find examples when I made a typo, strangely enough: "site:wikimedia.org radiation icon pmg" gives non wikimedia results.

      Maybe it's not applying the site operator when doing approximate string (fuzzy) matches?

        edapstah Weird, misspelling png as pmg gives non-Wikimedia results, but no other misspelling of png or the search terms I've found gives non-Wikimedia results.

            10 days later

            Hm this has been marked as done, but is still happening quite frequently.

            I'm finding it usually only happens with at least 3 search terms, not with 2.

            Interestingly, I repeated a search where this happened on google images and it seems to happen there as well.
            The problem may actually be upstream - maybe Kagi could impose additional checks/filtering when search operators are used?

            a month later
            15 days later

            nobodywasishere

            Looks like it's working correctly now! 👍️

            Edit: In fact, Kagi now is displaying results correctly, whereas the same search in Google images doesn't work correctly at all. A good win for Kagi!

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