Kagi — Webmaster portal (asserted)
What the AI subject asserted
"Kagi Webmaster at https://kagi.com/webmasters — premium subscription search; niche but high-quality reader base; standard webmaster registration flow."— Claude Opus 4.7, captured by RegLegBrief on 2026-06-16 during a distribution build session.
Primary-source verification
Verified against the live platform on 2026-06-16
URL tested: https://kagi.com/webmasters
HTTPS GET https://kagi.com/webmasters returns HTTP 404 (probed 2026-06-16). Kagi is a subscription search engine that blends Google, Brave, and its own Teclis/TinyGem crawlers. Kagi does not operate a webmaster portal; publishers have no direct registration channel with Kagi. Publisher visibility in Kagi is inherited from Google's index and from Kagi's own automatic crawl.
AI failure mode
Inference drift. Same `{domain}/webmasters` generalisation as the Brave Search case. No such page exists on the live Kagi service.
Material harm
Downstream cost incurred
Probe and rejection cost approximately 30 seconds. Cumulative cost was a contributor to the operator's broader hour-long verification pass over the session's recommended webmaster channels.
What the platform actually supports
Verified correct path (as of 2026-06-16)
Kagi has no publisher onboarding. Publishers seeking visibility in Kagi rely on Google's index (which Kagi consumes) and on Kagi's own crawl of high-signal domains. Publishers can submit feedback on Kagi's search results via Kagi's user-facing controls but cannot register a domain or feed.
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