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Etheryte ◴[] No.41873306[source]
This is a solid idea, but I wish they addressed the elephant in the room — image search is by far the weakest part of Kagi. For a considerable portion of queries, a large part of the results isn't relevant. If you use filters, they're often ignored or don't apply correctly. Many images are tangentially related at best. The list goes on. I've been paying for Kagi for a long while, yet I've seen nearly no improvements on this front. Image search is one part of their product where I often go to Google or other options because what Kagi does there just doesn't cut it.
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freediver ◴[] No.41873578[source]
Would you mind being specific and posting a search quality issue with a concrete example(s) to kagifeedback.org? We are keen to address the issues you are seeing.
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Topgamer7 ◴[] No.41873809[source]
I'm a subscriber. But I don't feel like creating a signup for kagifeedback.

https://kagi.com/images?q=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fp...

Lets use this as an example. I would personally like to have a list of exact results. Separately - a list of similar images would maybe be nice. But tbh, 99.99% of the time with reverse image search, I am trying to play detective, not find similar images. I am usually looking to see the first, original source of something. Or maybe other places I can find this image.

I will point out that detective stuff like this is crucial to try to prevent being catfished, or phished. I am not ignorant that it is also a concern for those who don't want to be found, for privacy or safety reasons; however some threat actor could just find a less public reverse image search I'm sure.

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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[] No.41873891[source]
> I'm a subscriber. But I don't feel like creating a signup for kagifeedback.

It's a separate login? That's really weird, isn't it?

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2. tensor ◴[] No.41874172[source]
Not really. It's not that uncommon for a support/forum/feedback site to use a separate account. It just means that they didn't have time, didn't want to spend the money, or couldn't link the support software to their main user account system.
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3. freediver ◴[] No.41874368[source]
> It just means that they didn't have time,

That's it!