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I kind of wish that they'd unify some of their features.
For example, I use the "Fediverse Forums" search lens to search the Threadiverse only. That's a drop-down menu.
Then there are those Duck Duck Go-style alias things that start with an exclamation mark.
kagis
Bangs.
And now the snaps.
Like, is it necessary to have all these as separate, segregated features? They all kind of do the same thing, are a way to ask the search engine to interpret the query differently.
EDIT: Also, I don't know if there's a Kagi lemmy community, but if so, that might be a better place than !technology@lemmy.world, since most folks won't be using Kagi. Doesn't matter much for communities that are desperate for traffic -- like, for games, I'd rather talk on a general games forum until traffic hits some point, rather than having a lot of game-specific communities that are ghost towns. But !technology@lemmy.world is one of the largest Lemmy communities, probably has enough post throughput.
I'm not a mod, not saying that it's community policy, just thinking about where it might best make sense.
EDIT2: Looking at lemmyverse.net, there is, but it's on lemmy.ml, and I'd really rather not subscribe to .ml communities. Doesn't appear to be any other Kagi communities at the moment.
Well, I don't really want to mod one myself, but if anyone wants to run a Kagi community somewhere off .ml, I'll subscribe.
Agree, there's a lot going on. How I see it:
@xxx are snaps, limiting result to any resource from a website e.g. Wikipedia.com
!xxx are bangs, using the sites own search engine to return results. They are external searches, and might provide more (if the site does not expose certain parts to search engine) or less (if the site didn't build search capabilities for some parts but they are indexable) than snaps.
Lenses return search results based on certain criteria. Those could be a list of snaps (so domains), but also geography, keywords, file types, or they could exclude the same.