The -site:domain filter does not always work

Boomkop3

If I had to guess why this is, I think this would be google's api being faulty. I've seen the same problem on google, and they have an exclusivity contract with this particular domain.

Perhaps an extra filter might be helpful here

Removing a domain should remove the domain

afshany

Boomkop3

put it like this

windows 11 register app as installed site:reddit.com

-site is incorrect. site:domain is the correct way.

oh you wanna exclude reddit. my bad

Boomkop3

afshany No worries! the odd thing is it does work, 99%, same as on google. It filters the domain out of the results, just not all of it

RoxyRoxyRoxy

Marking as under review while we explore whether this is an issue on Kagi's end or with Google's API.

quinncom

I was trying to find an official press release from Tesla for the Bay Area ride-hailing service they announced today, so I opened Kagi and searched for “site:tesla.com” with a time filter of “Past 24 hours”. The results include results that are on websites other than tesla.com.

Expected behavior: If I use the site: search option, I expect only results from the domain I specify. In this case, I expect only pages on tesla.com.

Actual behavior: The results contain matches from sanet.st, www.aliter.com, youtube.com, github.com, catalog.maryville.edu, geeksforgeeks.org, etc.

At first, there were a few results from testla.com, followed by the non-testla.com results, but after several page reloads, those results disappeared so now all results were from only non-tesla.com websites.

I tested a few other domains, and was unable to trigger this issue on other domains. tesla.com is the only domain I found this happens to.

Status: All Services Operational
Connected to: US-CENTRAL
Network latency: 223ms

Boomkop3

https://kagifeedback.org/d/6851-the-sitedomain-filter-does-not-always-work

From what I understand, this is being figured out