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It would be great if there was a way to generate alerts from new results from a given search, similar to how Google Alerts works.

E.g., generate a new RSS feed item and/or an email notice when a new result appears that matches a given Kagi search.

    • Best Answerset by Vlad

    Is this enough? Do we need more features?

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I’d consider paying for a feature that replicates tools that existed in the original blogosphere, namely something that tracks links to and discussion of my blog in and around the modern blogosphere. I frankly do not want to maintain the tech infrastructure for ActivityPub or webmention just to know when someone has said something interesting about something I wrote, but I still would like to know when such things happen.

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      2 months later

      This is one of the few services I still use from Google, and I'd love to replace it with Kagi, of course.

        15 days later

        bixfrankonis Does this lead to Kagi eventually building a Google Reader replacement (they're already doing email after all)? 🤞

          Would anyone dare create a mockup of the basic interface/functionality? How would this fit into Kagi product portfolio (standalone or part of search app? discovery?)

            9 days later

            Kuinox Beautiful. There is probably a link to RSS feed there somewhere as well. What would a web notification look like?

              Well I remember kagi having notifications through the bell icon, which is what triggered the idea, but since I don't see it anymore and don't see a way to have it back, I can't see if it's just a link to the changelog or if you already have an UI for the notifications.

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                Kuinox You probably have Product notifications turned off in your account settings.

                  Vlad by "I don't see it anymore" I mean I can't open the menu right now to study it, since there is no pending notification, and it just disappear in this case.
                  I still receive the notifications.

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                    18 days later

                    I'm a kagi convert, but I unfortunately keep having to use Google alerts. hopefully one day we'll get alerts!

                      I think a good first step could be to just add an RSS for any search. it does not require any secial management dashboard and can be consumed in variety of ways.

                      Few problems to solve:

                      1. Authentication - how do we authenticate the user and prevent abuse
                      2. Cost management - if results get generated on every pull of the feed it could be a lot every day (and this will all cost the same as regular searches)
                      3. Interface - where do we put the rss feed icon in results?
                        15 days later

                        Something I still use with Google is keyword email alerts. I have several set up:
                        1) keywords for jobs e.g dog walking Oxford, technical product lead uk, or whatever.
                        2) subject or topic key words e.g arch Linux, personal blog etc
                        They’re basically the same thing; a keyword search

                        On a daily basis then I will get an email from Google, with recent search results for these keyword alerts. One email per keyword search result. Here’s an example of one that I have set up for Linux:

                        Here’s Google’s page, explaining what you need to do to set up an alert:
                        https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en

                        I don’t have to be looking for a job, but it helps me to keep my finger on the pulse, as I work in a niche role.

                        The keywords could be anything, but I received one email for each set of keyword(s) that I set up. E.g.
                        1) keyword: linux - I get one email a day using this. I don’t get any say about what results go into that email.

                        2) arch Linux: would get one daily email, with anything arch Linux related. Again, I have no say really what goes into the emails from Google. I don’t even get a say in when I receive them.

                        Happy to answer any questions you might have!

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                            9 days later

                            +1 this suggestion

                            As some users said, I still use Google News to produce RSS feeds, that I input into Feedbro

                            Would be very useful to have this functionality with Kagi.

                            Also, it would be a supplementary incentive to go for the "unlimited search" plan

                              From email: How about GPT-powered "google news" style alerts where you can use prose to specify a criteria and get notified whenever a new website enters the corpus that matches the criteria?

                              Anyone has examples of a good use case for this?