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.
This is one of the few services I still use from Google, and I'd love to replace it with Kagi, of course.
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?)
Like that ?
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.
Vlad yes please include RSS feed for standing search results.
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:
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!
+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?
Vlad if that allowed it to disambiguate polysemous terms, it would beat Google--my alerts this week for Kagi keep including Kagi Karialan. So the use case is just a better news alert, I guess.
Personally I would just like the basic keyword functionality before we start thinking about GPT powered anything. I don't even care about "alerts" as such. If I could cut out the middle step and be able to create an RSS feed based on any search query (particularly on the news tab) that would be amazing.
In regards to your earlier questions.
Authentication - how do we authenticate the user and prevent abuse
Probably require the API key as a parameter or generate a unique UUID for the feed when it is initially copied by a user which achieves a similar thing.
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)
Personally I'd be happy for the results to be cached on the kagi server with some kind of regeneration limit to avoid constant regeneration with overhappy RSS clients. Basically something like serve the cached version 1-30 mins after generation then regenerate on a request 31+ minutes after the last regeneration.
Interface - where do we put the rss feed icon in results?
I don't have much opinion on this one but probably the feed icon next to the search bar would be fine. Also advertising it in the standard paths so RSS aware browsers/extensions identify it automatically.
Vlad An LLM-powered alert sounds awesome, but is probably overkill for an initial release of what I’m looking for. I’d like something to run once a day (or week) and generate an alert that would show up in the upper-right “bell” menu or generate an email with new results since the last run. My current example is I’d like to be notified whenever the T Coronae Borealis nova is spotted.
