Google Alerts

Google Alerts is a service developed by Google. It focuses on giving email notifications on the latest news based on the user's queries. There is an option to personalize how the notifications are sent, what the query is, type of the result, how often and how many are sent, and which email they are delivered to. The actual list might look like this:


 * Result type - Everything, News, Blogs, Videos, Discussions, or Books
 * How often - Once a day, once a week, or as it happens
 * How many - Only the best results, or all results
 * Deliver to - EmailAdress

Currently there are six types of alerts sent when new content matches the search terms of the alert:
 * Everything – (default) aggregates News, Web and Blogs
 * News – Given when relative content makes it into the top ten results of a Google News search
 * Web – Given when new web pages displays in the top twenty results for a Google Web search
 * Blog – Given when relative content displays in the top ten results of a Google Blog Search
 * Video – Given when relative content displays in the top ten results of a Google Video search
 * Groups – Given when relative content displays in the top fifty results of a Google Groups search