Who’s Googling you now? Set a Google Alert.
Google indexes billions upon billions of new content every day. Don’t spend time digging through online news outlets or Blogs. Have the news come to you as it happens.
Who’s Googling you now? Set a Google Alert – You can create unlimited Google Alerts explicitly designed toward your information needs to:
Defending against damaging blogs targeting you
Monitor a developing news story
Keep current on a competitor or industry
Get the latest on a celebrity or event
Keep tabs on your favorite sports teams
Follow new real estate listings for your area
Using Google Alerts to stay ahead of the curb
I recently read the following in a search engine trade journal: “A 26-year-old Ph.D. student from the University of New South Wales has patented a new way of exploring the web that could revolutionize existing search engines. Developed by Ori Allon, the Orion© search engine is designed to complement searches conducted by Google, Yahoo, or Bing search”.
Since this impacts any Visionefx search engine optimization work I perform for my web clients, I need to know when anything related to “Orion” is posted in the search engines. I went to my Google Alerts and asked to be alerted by email whenever anything new is posted for Orion. In less than two hours, I received a Google Alert with four major stories and links about Orion as follows:
Google Hires Orion Search Engine Creator; Gets Extraction …
Search Engine Watch – USA
SEW Forums moderator Edel “Orion” Garcia posted a thread about a new search technology under development in September.
Q-Phrase on Google’s Orion: “Kiss Snippets Goodbye?”
Search Engine Lowdown – USA
Yesterday, I said that the reason I’ve been so obsessed with this Orion purchase is that Google “may be deliberately integrating 4th-place (in usage)
See all stories on this topic
Google buys Orion algorithm
Register – London, England,UK
… work for Google. The algorithm, a set of rules search engines use to produce relevant results, is called Orion. The Sydney Morning …
Wow, that’s a pretty cool tool. Think of the possibilities. You can set alerts for your name, stock quotes, websites, news items, and unique information.
First, sign up for a free Gmail account to set up your own Google Alert. Once you have activated your free account, go to http://www.google.com/alerts. Enter the topics or phrases you wish to monitor and watch the World Wide Web deliver them to your doorstep.
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