Currency converson: always disable Quick Answers and enable Kagi Knowledge regardless of "?"

pseudonym

Adding a question mark to a currency conversion query disables Kagi Knowledge and enables Quick Answer. However, Kagi Knowledge provides accurate and current currency exchange rates, but Quick Answer inevitably relies on outdated information. Sometimes it confidently says "Today, the exchange rate is [oudated rate from a few days ago]" and sometimes it discusses various sources and hypothesises that the most recent one is probably the most accurate.

I think most users entering currency conversion queries are looking for current exchange rates, so I would recommend disabling Quick Answers for this type of query, or at least also enabling Kagi Knowledge.

hollabaq86

Honestly, it would be nice if there was a tool to do the calculation for you in the search results, similar to google's (I can't grab a screenshot because I'm using the kagi safari plugin haha)

Luis

This is an interesting use case. We'll review how to best handle these cases. Thank you for your post!

pseudonym

Thanks for looking into this! It also goes for other queries that Kagi itself can answer without AI (not sure what these are called collectively), like "What is the time in Hawaii?" or "How many inches are in a meter?". For the time query, we first get Quick Assist explaining that it doesn't know the current time, and then the clock and the correct answer provided by Kagi. This is slightly inconvenient because it means I have to read more/scroll further to get the answer. For the unit conversion, we do get a correct answer from Quick Assist, though it is a bit slower and it seems overkill to use an LLM for this.

Maybe the solution would be to always put Kagi's non-AI answer above any Quick Assist answer?