Google Alerts

google alertsGoogle Alerts is a great service from Google. With Google Alerts you can notified by Google every time Google catches the phrase that you set. For example, you want catch a phrase: otakatik.com, with Google Alerts you will get an email every time Google receives a change in their search result database. This is useful for me as a web developer because I can monitor my blog changes on Google database.

If you are have Google account already, you don’t need to register to this service again, just use your Google account to login.

After login, you can set a phrase to monitor very easy.

  1. Just type your phrase to Search phrase box. I want to monitor a phrase “www.otakatik.com”, so I type it on Search terms box.
    search term 
  2. Choose your your alert type that you want to monitor. Choose it in Type combo. I suggest, if you’re monitoring from entire of souce, choose Comprehensive type. In Type combo, you will find six type of alert:
    • News, the result is from 10 ten of Google News latest news.
    • Web, the result from top twenty of Google search result.
    • Comprehensive, the result from entire of Google services (News, Google Search, Blog Search, Video and Groups).
    • Video, the result from Google Video.
    • Groups, the result from Google Groups.
  3. Then decide the frequency the email will send into your inbox. The options are as-it happens, the email will send every time Google Alerts find your term; once a day, the email will send for once a day; once a week, you’ll get an email that contains your monitored term for once a week. I’ve set it to once a day.
  4. In Deliver to combo contains your email (usually, it contains your account email) and feed.
  5. The last step is click Create Alert button. If it is created successfully, you’ll get this message.
    alert is created 
  6. And if Google Alerts finds your terms in their database, you’ll get an alert by email.
    alert email 

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