Kagi puts greg.app at top for [yerba buena cat safety] also

Seeing A Three Month Review of Kagi Search on Hacker News got me curious about Kagi again. My first search, following up on a previous post looking at Google’s results for the same, was [yerba buena cat safety].

I was a little disappointed to see this:

You can take a look at the Reddit post “Greg is providing false info” for general concerns and my previous post for concerns about this specific page.

However, notice that they also have the ASPCA page for mint at second position. Good.

But I notice something else that makes me wonder a little. Giving credit where credit’s due, I see that Google is also putting that ASPCA page at 2nd position.

And Kagi and Google agree on the 3rd result too:

So, the top three organic results agree exactly. Spooky. It could very well be that there are a lot of signals pointing to these as the top three best pages for this query, but it still made me go “huh”.

At least for this query, subjectively for me, I’d say Kagi comes out on top thanks to not emphasizing the misleading answer (no equivalent of AI Overview or featured snippet) and thus moving the ASPCA mint page closer to the top, visible above the fold for me. (On the other hand, the sitelinks pulled in by Kagi for the greg.app page make that block much more prominent vs the corresponding organic result on Google.)

I got a surprise looking at Kagi’s 5th result — a pointer back to this blog!

Finally, out of curiosity, what does Bing do for [yerba buena cat safety]?

It looks like their equivalent to featured snippet is kicking in. You might say it’s worse than Google’s due to including that nonsense about yuccas as look-alike. (On the other hand, that could be a tip off not to trust the rest of the text.)

And it’s funny to see this blog show up again, this time as their 2nd organic result. Then again, I’m not sure if there are many pages other than that post dealing directly with the question of yerba buena’s cat safety. Unlike Kagi and Bing, Google doesn’t pick up on my blog post.

Since DuckDuckGo uses Bing as a source of “traditional links”, it’s probably not a surprise that its top two results are the same as Bing — including a link to my post! At least it skips the featured snippet though.

It’s interesting to see that greg.app manages to rank at top for three search engines for this query. Bravo? I’m also impressed that Kagi perhaps matched or surpassed Google for this one specific query. Looking forward to playing with Kagi some more.