Each Web Search Alert has a dedicated run/result dashboard. A manual Run now action opens this dashboard instead of returning only to the alert editor.
The dashboard keeps the Alert's verified result table, run history and delivery state together. Opening a historical run filters the result table to rows first seen or seen again in that exact run, so separate monitoring executions do not become an undifferentiated result list.
While the latest run is active, the dashboard polls a read-only progress endpoint. The displayed stages are based on the Alert Engine's real queue, run and audit state:
The progress display is milestone-based rather than an invented time estimate. Reading progress never starts or retries the provider search. Before an Alert run row exists, the queued state comes from the recorded queue event. Once the worker starts, the real run state and run-specific audit milestones take precedence.
When the run finishes, the dashboard switches to that exact run so its result table and delivery state are immediately visible.
A positive Web Search Alert Tools notification links directly to the exact alert and run that produced the new verified results. The administrator Notifications inbox uses an administrator-only run route, while the owner-facing shared notification uses the owner-scoped run dashboard.
Run and result access remains owner-scoped. A signed-in user cannot open another user's Alert or run by changing ids in the URL.
For creation, scheduling, filtering, email/SMS behavior and the API, see the main Web Search Alerts documentation.