Google Alerts Adds Blogs to News Search

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1. Startups.in/India
   

   October 26th, 2006 at 7:39 pm

   “that the atom and RSS links still take you to a page of XML and that email is the method of tracking blogs that’s being offered.”

   That is lame if I understood it correctly. Why wouldn’t they want to offer RSS for the blog search tracker/results?

2. Marshall Kirkpatrick
   

   October 26th, 2006 at 7:42 pm

   They do, they just don’t do it in a particularly user friendly way. They just link the words RSS and atom to the xml code. Check it out over on the side bar of a Google blog search results page http://blogsearch.google.com/

3. Startups.in/India
   

   October 26th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

   Well, works fine for me. Probably that is because I’m using firefox 2.0 which now lets me preview before subscribing to the feeds (with the options to use Y!, Goog Reader, bloglines or any other reader that is registered on my desktop) when ever I click on a RSS/ATOM link.

4. John Shapiro
   

   October 26th, 2006 at 11:44 pm

   These announcements seem to be the first of what we can only assume will be an on-going campaign to integrate Google products rather than releasing them all as stand-alone applications (per Sergey’s announcement a few weeks ago).

   It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. Marissa Mayer will be addressing Google’s future when she speaks at Harvard Business School’s Technology conference, Cyberposium, on Nov 11. If you’re following the recent Google actions, you may want to take a look.

   John Shapiro
   Director of PR
   Cyberposium

5. Ramon
   

   October 27th, 2006 at 1:07 am

   This alerts are useful to know everything that is said in the blogosphere. Not sure though whether this is completely relevant. I guess most of the times you only want information from qualified sources, thus you might be getting a lot of noise.

   Here comes an interesting one: This could be exploited by spammers that will be able to send emails using google alerts. Just add frequent words to the spam posts and get them sent to users that have subscribed to them. A spammer could even do “targeted marketing campaigns”. Or maybe the indexation mechanism of Google Blogsearch has a spam filter? (I hope spammers don’t read this …)

6. Parveen
   

   October 27th, 2006 at 1:54 am

   Yes google alerts anyone with e-mails of any search topic u choose.It can be once in a day or the event occurs.It can even search for blogs, groups.

   A great feature….

7. Yada
   

   October 27th, 2006 at 2:35 am

   I love it, perfect to do Press Clipping.

8. Pro-SEO
   

   October 27th, 2006 at 9:15 am

   These blog alerts are a great way to keep up on news. It’s pretty fairly common knowledge now that bloggers have thier ear a lot closer to the grind stone than mainstream news. So if you want news fast look to bloggers.

9. carl rahn griffith
   

   October 27th, 2006 at 9:21 am

   seems we’re all in danger of becoming highly event-driven - following on from the immediacy of responding to an email or mobile phone alert, we’re now conditioned to be hyper-sensitive to the occurence of transient blogging keywords.

   are we all becoming frustrated traders - buy/sell based on a dealing room stock’s movement?

   alerts have their place in the right context but it seems to me we’re failing to reason things, put them into context, to be cognitive of news and events - lots of alerts and events, no correlation = confusion and a reaction-driven mindset.

10. David Smit
    

    October 27th, 2006 at 10:55 am

    I sucks that Google Alerts doesn’t allow users to subscribe via RSS to their alerts. I don’t want lots of emails in my Inbox.

    Check out my post:
    http://www.ishopr.com/blog/?p=22

11. maxpower
    

    October 27th, 2006 at 10:58 pm

    This is great news for bloggers and the fight against splogs. Just sign up for Google Alerts with a fingerprint that you use in every blog post. I developed a plugin for WordPress which will help you do this quickly and easily: digital fingerprint, its free! [shameless self link, though relevant]

12. Leandro Ardissone
    

    November 7th, 2006 at 10:19 am

    It don’t work for me using the “blogurl:techcrunch.com” query.. Maybe I need another operator?

13. Mark Argentino
    

    January 12th, 2007 at 8:20 pm

    Hi, good post.

    Wondering if you can help.

    I have a google alert set up to send me an alert anytime that my website url appears in a blog, the alert setting is:

    Google Blogs Alert for: mississauga4sale.com

    If I add a post to my blog at mississauga4sale.com/blog using blogger beta, I will receive an alert the same or next day. BUT, the alert only contains another blog that iframes my blog and the alert Never shows my blog in the results, which is the actual post!

    For example, the result returned the other day after I made a post to my site was:

    Why are the months of January and February 2007 a good time to …
    By info
    Why are the months of January and February 2007 a good time to sell my home? The reason that January and February are good months to sell your home or property is because the competition is far lower compared to other times of the year. …
    Canadian Housing Market : Real… - http://www.canadianhousingmarket.com

    which is my post appearing in that other site!

    Would you have any explanation for this or know of a method to have my blog appear in the results too?

    My fear is that my actual blog post (and my blog) is somehow not being indexed or pinging google, yet the site that always has my feed contained in it gets indexed almost immediately.

    Thanks for your help,
    Mark

14. poesia
    

    February 22nd, 2007 at 7:19 am

    Grande sito!!

15. superman
    

    February 23rd, 2007 at 9:25 am

    luogo fine, sapete..

16. nata
    

    February 24th, 2007 at 12:51 pm

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