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Kai
I use https://kagi.com/search?q= with my login token as a bookmark on a mobile browser where I can't change the default search engine. I click on that -> type my query -> profit (without the layout of the page changing, whereas with a redirect it would)
Now if https://kagi.com/search?q= would place my cursor at the search bar (bringing up the keyboard on my mobile device), that would be 1 click less and thus dope.
you can get there by navigating to news and back
What if I want to go back to news, this too is simpler without a redirect to the start page.
at least show some kind of no result screen
This is preferable imo. There already is the following when you click enter on https://kagi.com/search?q=