Shortcut referencial queries

Walex

I believe a part of search engine queries and one of the usage of search engine is only to reach a website home page, without typing it's full URL.

because we are lazy
because we do not remember the exact URL
because now in browser search bar and url bar are the same input field
And then we select the first result

Kagi could provide a feature that allows to save queries in Kagi plan counter and provide an effective shorcut/redirection feature.
It would also benefic for the environment as the carbon footprint of such queries would much less (just a redirect, not a whole result page to compute and render).

This would help me adopt a kagi plan and use it daily as :

it could avoid charging about 25% of my queries
while offering an effective shortcut/redirection to consult some well known platforms.

If not a core feature, could also be a browser extension.

An idea would be to have a feature that :

map some referencial queries directly to the website (like "wikepedia" goes directly to wikipedia homepage)
don't count those search in search count
can be enabled or not
can be parametrized (ex: adding new shortcut/redirection or blacklisting native shortcut/redirection)
can be disabled with a operator in search queries (ex: "youtube" redirect directly to youtube homepage while ">youtube" will perform a regular search about youtube.
could also be the opposite, using ">" to enter shortcut/redirection mode (though it might be less efficient and impactant for majority of user who will not dig into this possibility)
as soon as there is another keyword than a famous paltform name in the query, perform a regular query, not a shortcut/redirection

Thibaultmol

I'm not sure if it's an exact solution to your problem but are you aware of bangs?

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/bangs.html

They actually autocomplete if you're typing them in the search field on kagi.com itself as well

Walex

Thibaultmol
Yes I read about bangs. It's indeed a good idea but serve a different purpose that is performing a search but in a different search engine/platform. Looking deeper in bangs, it works also as home page shortcut when used without keyword, so it basically fit my need. My approach is just more integrated and no knowledge is needed to use the feature.

Because for vast majority of "less technical" user not reading any manual / tricks, or having to much reflex to use search engine instead of accessing directly a website (or favorite it) there will never know this exists and use queries from their kagi plan that could be saved. Also it would helps lowering footprint of web as a full search has a much bigger impact than a redirection.

Maybe what I suggest is too much, but more communication on bangs (especially when it is obvious the query is used only to access a website and pickup the first result) with a info/banner at top of the search result could benefit adoption (paying less) and footprint. This info/banner should state bangs does not use search credit. Kagi could also measure those kind of queries (top search result clicked) to know when it is releavant to put this info.