Disclaimer: Works at Brave, before at Tailcat.
Goggles white-paper was released more than a year ago, long before Kagi was even announced to the public.
Additionally, before Brave acquired Tailcat (Jan 2021) I had the pleasure to share the draft of the paper with Kagi's founder.
So no, there is no prior art.
Let me add that I do not claim that Goggles is prior art of Lenses either.
One of the key features of Goggles design is that the instructions, rules and filters are open and URL accessible.
A Goggle is not so much a personal preference configuration, but a way to collaborative come up with shareable and expandable search re-rankers.
Very different goals if you ask me. Of course, Goggles can be used for personal preferences exclusively, but that's not the use case we had in mind.
Goggles white-paper was released more than a year ago, long before Kagi was even announced to the public.
Additionally, before Brave acquired Tailcat (Jan 2021) I had the pleasure to share the draft of the paper with Kagi's founder.
So no, there is no prior art.
Let me add that I do not claim that Goggles is prior art of Lenses either.
One of the key features of Goggles design is that the instructions, rules and filters are open and URL accessible.
A Goggle is not so much a personal preference configuration, but a way to collaborative come up with shareable and expandable search re-rankers.
Very different goals if you ask me. Of course, Goggles can be used for personal preferences exclusively, but that's not the use case we had in mind.