the bag never even saw the cat

[topaz]

Did you know that there's a service called Google Alerts?

So that you can get advised of new pages as soon as they appear in Google? Like, say, any page mentioning your last name?

Yeah, neither did I.

Oh well. :-)

Comments

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I've been using this for a year or more. It's really useful. Oh, and it only searches newspapers and news web sites. Not all of google. However, I find it great to track if anyone is mentioning:

1. The company I work for
2. The company I used to work for
3. My name
4. My hometown (haven't been there in years, but I hear the big events!)
5. The names of political operatives that I track... people that I dislike as well as people that I like.
6. The names of CEOs that have left your companies, or other people that might be mentioned in the news.

Tom

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it only searches newspapers and news web sites. Not all of google.

I don't know about "all of Google", but it isn't limited to newspapers or news sites -- my alert on "Seebacher" turned up http://www.unchi.org/birthday/ , after all, and right before that a new (or newly updated) Austrian computer firm's site, http://www.seebacher.co.at/ .

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

It found the birthday thing! Drat!

Oh well. Google giveth, and google taketh away.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

I think you're talking about Google's "News Alert" feature. The thing that gave away the game to Ellen is a third-party service, http://www.googlealert.com/, which does indeed search all of Google.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was my confusion.