Mr Bass Online » search http://blog.mrbassonline.com Musings on Technology and Education Fri, 21 May 2010 14:05:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Let Google Alert You http://blog.mrbassonline.com/2009/12/let-google-alert-you/ http://blog.mrbassonline.com/2009/12/let-google-alert-you/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:17:44 +0000 Bill Bass http://blog.mrbassonline.com/?p=233 One of my favorite tools in the Google arsenal is that of Google Alerts. Essentially, Google Alerts is a tool that will do an ongoing search for you automatically and then email you the results on a regular basis.  So, imagine that you are in the market for a new netbook (as I was last summer).  Asus had just come out with the eeepc 1000HE and I was interested. However, I wanted to let some of the early adopters get one and make their recommendations as to the feel and workings of the machine.  Instead of going everyday and doing a blog search looking for reviews, I set up a Google Alert to do a comprehensive search on the term “eeepc 1000HE” and to email me the results once a day.

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From then on I got a daily email anytime there was a website that would have shown up in my search results.  I love Alerts for the same reason that I love RSS, it saves me time and energy. My searches come to my inbox automatically and I can use my time in other ways.  Give it a try.

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