Search results ignore a sub-set of my search terms too often

grkgwkh

I am (increasingly?) getting annoyed and disappointed with Kagi's search results. I feel like the behaviour has changed.

What I am experiencing:
Kagi appears to rank popular search results for only a subset of the search terms higher than (presumably) less popular search results with all the search terms in them. I have experienced this many times. As an example I'm attaching a particularly bad case below. I searched using two search terms and the top 10 or so search results contained only one of my search terms. That's 50% of search terms ignored. Only the third group finally contained both search terms (so these pages do exist!).

This is highly upsetting to me. It forces me to start using quotation marks, just like I had to with previous search engines. This is just not what I came to Kagi for. When I search using search terms, it's because I want these search terms to be in the suggested pages. I know what I'm typing. I'm ok with edge cases such as

there's a well-known typo in one of my search terms and it is auto-corrected (though I prefer an explicit “Did you mean…?”)
there are 0 search results for all my search terms and thus the search is done for a sub-set
there are alternatives to some of my search terms that yield “better” results (but clearly this is a slippery slope, so again I prefer “Did you mean…?”)

But my example is no such case. ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED is a technical term that must be respected as such for the search results to be useful.

Example:

What I expect:
The search results to contain all my search terms whenever possible, especially if they are very specific.

Ok to me: I search for “apple” and the results are also for “apples”
Not ok to me: I search for “bicycle apple” and the search results contain pages with only “bicycle” in them and no reference to “apple” at all

grkgwkh

I am not sure this is the right place to track the issues I run into, but I will continue to do so.

I searched Immenstaad leitungswasser (the name of a town + “drinking water”). I got this:

The first search result is relevant. The second one is for an entirely different town. Now if my search term Immenstaad had not existed, I might accept this, but Immenstaad does exist so auto-correcting away from what I explicitly entered is annoying. The third search result, the Listings, entirely ignore the second search term (half of what I entered!).

So once again I had to enforce my actual search term by enclosing it in quotation marks, so "immenstaad" leitungswasser. I got this:

And again: first search result useful, second and third completely ignoring my second search term; the second search result is the English wikipedia so it cannot possibly contain my German search term. Only the fourth result is related to water again.

grkgwkh

Maybe more examples are helpful so here's another. Something definitely changed in the last couple of weeks (months?).

There are plenty of good search results (=the search term is on the page) but the 2nd and 3rd are again about an entirely different word.

In this case I would also find it hard to believe that the 2nd and 3rd result are widly popular compared to the other results so not sure what makes them show up there.