Idea: `!private` bang to avoid hard-coding search terms in the URL

neysofu

Idea: a !private bang that performs searches as usual, but without hard-coding the search term in the URL.

Let me clarify with an example. A Kagi search for foobar takes me to https://kagi.com/search?q=foobar, and results in the browser suggesting such search next time I type foobar (or parts of it, such as foo) into the address bar. Ideally, users ought to use a private browsing session for such searches, but there's two reasons why that's inconvenient:

I need several clicks to open a private window, and I'm lazy.
I may not have Kagi configured to work correctly inside private windows, which requires an extension that I don't want to or can't install.

So, I'd like to search for !private foobar and have Kagi use JS magic to keep the URL to kagi.com while displaying the search results for foobar. (This is trivial and perhaps a client-side only change for Kagi to do when searching using the Kagi search bar, but a server-side strategy is likely needed to come up with an approach that also works inside the address bar, if possible at all.) When I wish to click a search result, I can simply right-click "Open link in a new private-window" which is faster for me.

Additionally, it'd be cool if such bang was composable with other bangs, such as !private !i foobar performing a private image search.

RoxyRoxyRoxy

neysofu Can’t this be configured in browser? None of my previous searches come up as an auto suggest option.

Temanor

Afaik, Kagi doesn't suggest previous searches in the search bar. Your browser is the one managing the URL bar.
I'm not entirely sure how this works, so I may be wrong.

dabaldeagul

Personally I wouldn't use this much. Pressing Ctrl + Shift + N is quick enough to open a private tab.

And it's not hard to set up Kagi for incognito windows either, no extension required – under account settings you can find a session link, which looks like this: https://kagi.com/search?token=xxxxxx; using this as the search URL and appending &q=%s to it, you can use Kagi in private windows with your own account.

I do understand the premise of the request though. Basically, you want an encrypted search URL so that the browser doesn't see what you're actually searching for, to prevent it from saving that info in the future, while also preventing having to turn off search suggestions in the browser entirely, as they are oftentimes useful for other, less private things.