Google's new News Alerts

Google has invented another great tool: Google News Alerts, which are e-mailed to you when news articles appear online that match the topics you specify. E-mail News Alerts aren't new -- Yahoo and The New York Times are among those offering them. But The New York Times recently started charging for theirs. Yahoo's are quite good, but the site still only sends you links to the content on its news site. What makes Google's so powerful is that Google News trolls 4,500 news sources continuously throughout the day -- and you can set the alert to send you links to related articles as soon as Google News find them! So if you're writing about the debate over the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, for example, you can set an alert to send you an e-mail as soon as any of 4,500 news sites posts an article containing the words "gay and bishop." Now that's service!

Google News Alerts are still in beta, so you can't find them from the Google News page, you have to go here: http://www.google.com/newsalerts

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2 comments about 'Google's new News Alerts'

good site

Posted by may at March 18, 2004 11:13 PM

Nice.

Posted by Tom at November 14, 2004 10:41 PM

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