It’s paid and US-based, but Kagi has been serving me very well!

It's cuz DDG uses Bing search services, and since Bing is a M$ product, this suggestion would make sense

Kate is a very common name. maybe it's being disregarded. I don't believe those are sponsored results.

henlo

The irony.

Edit: ddg(while on private search) also have two ads for spellchecker, then only the actual site when you scroll down a bit. Still in first page though.

Ecosia also a few item below, and startpage are same as ddg.

DDG search is not good

heh - you'll actually get more relevant results from google on this one

DuckDuckGo slightly alters your search results based on your reginon and so I couldn't reproduce this. Try advanced syntax with queries like +kate spellchecker or even "kate" spellchecker. Failing that, add terms you don't want to see (-ai, -"quillbot").

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

I'm not promoting DDG, I don't use it either, just saying that they do provide a no ai version (currently at least)

Also note that no LLM doesn't mean no "promoted" listings

Which distro are you using and how did you install kate ? Usually to add dictionaries you just have to install hunspell packages

Search Assist found the correct resource immediately.

seems usable to me

I use Kagi and it's usually better than ddg and google, but in this case not much. TBF your query kinda sucks tho. By searching "kate spellchecker add dictionary", I found this.

What's your distro? Have you tried searching on your package manager? That's where dictionaries usually are.