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I didn't have much success with Kagi for Spanish/local searches. Has this improved?

For local searches (meaning in your city or even more local) I find Google better.

For national searches, I find Kagi good at long as you specify the country. That’s one of my favorite features actually, you can leave it international by default, and add “!es” to search in Spain.

Kagi even mentions in their FAQ that you’ll have better luck on google for local stuff than you would on Kagi

You have to select your country as the default region to get better results, the "International" region is not as good as it was before, and leans very heavily to English.

The good part is that after you've selected your country as the region, you still get good results in English or other languages.