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Re:Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results by wenc on Thursday October 17, 2024 @08:30PM (#41875231)
Try looking for your a local Thai restaurant in your area. Kagi doesn’t profile you so it doesn’t know where you are, so any local searches involve adding a keyword or doing the search a second time with !g.

I just tried it on Kagi and it suggested a Yelp link for restaurants in McKinney TX which is nowhere near where I am.

Google uses what it knows about you as context — which arguably many folks here are against— but it does get me the right results in one go.

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Re:Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results by freediver on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:32PM (#41875578)
> Google uses what it knows about you as context — which arguably many folks here are against— but it does get me the right results in one go.

Kagi does let you opt-in your location to improve searches. So there is a way and the user is in full control.

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Re:Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results by commandar on Friday October 18, 2024 @12:15AM (#41876288)
I just looked and I can't find any option to localize results more specifically than "United States." I'm not finding anything in a KB search either. If the option is there, it has really poor discoverability.

I love the service, but poor local results is definitely one of its weak points and basically the only reason I ever fall back to Google anymore.

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Re:Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results by wenc on Friday October 18, 2024 @01:49PM (#41881780)
I’m not sure it exists. You can opt in on Kagi maps but not search.
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Re:Kagi Update: AI Image Filter for Search Results by wkat4242 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:28PM (#41875555)
Ah ok that explains a lot. I use a lot of privacy protection when I use any Google features (like running them in a separate Firefox container so it can't see other web activity). So I'm used to specifying that already.
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