If I understood 747FC's post correctly, that isn't quite what was being suggested. Being able to initiate associated queries while viewing alerts would be new (and an enhacement IMO, if it can be done without making the display seem 'cluttered').
Correct, the main issue would be clutter and even more confusion between the alert and saved query functions.
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747FC
But you would still need to initially create a Saved Query, which is completely duplicating the information one puts into the Saved Alerts, no?
Yes, but you can do that on the same results page that you created the alert on, at the same time without an additional search.
We can surely look into an improvement, but the point is that you can do this today without additional searches.