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Google Alerts Satisfies Your Video Fix

Google Alerts Satisfies Your Video Fix

By WebProNews Staff September 26, 2007

A little tweak in the Google Alerts service now allows its users to keep tabs on their favorite topics when a video related to those appears.

Google Advising Sites Of Badware Status

Sites that get flagged as possibly hazardous destinations in Google’s search results will receive notifications from Google about the problem.

Time To Play

On the whole, Google’s search properties are doing well – a recent analysis showed a 24% year-over-year improvement. There’s a lot of variation among those properties, however. Google Video was the clear winner, with a gain of 545%, but Froogle, Google Alerts, and Google Local all suffered losses.

Four Keys To Brand Monitoring

Forrester Research reiterated the importance of being aware of what people say about your brand online, and noted the four key parts to successfully evaluating potential brand monitoring solutions.

VeriSign Teams With eBay For SMS Alerts

For eBay auction bidders tired of losing out to last-minute snipers whilst running errands (or whatever may pull your attention from the computer), VeriSign and eBay announced an agreement to deliver mobile alerts via SMS from VeriSign’s Intelligent Messaging Network (VIMN).

Microsoft Outing Pirates

Nathan Ballog of Illinois, Microsoft says you are a pirate!

Weather Channel Pops Ads Over Alerts

It appears the popular weather reporting channel has found a new way to ensure users of its Desktop Weather application view ads, by popping them up when users go to check a severe weather alert.

Noteworthy Videos
RSS Appreciation Day

Ike Pigott, a public affairs officer with the Red Cross in Birmingham, Alabama, has a bright idea.

Yahoo Offers Movie Recommendations

Gary at ResourceShelf offers that Yahoo Alerts now has personalized movie recommendations, sent to you once a week.

RSS Blog Alerts via TXT Message

Yahoo! has added yet another feature to the growing support for RSS and RSS search.

Yahoo Prepping RSS Feed Alerts

The existing alerts service from Yahoo will gain the capability to add RSS feeds and send alerts when those feeds get updated.

Blogging On Google Alerts Not Crawling For Blogs

Many people get Google news alerts. They’re pretty simple. You pick your topic, say the timely subject of hurricanes. When hurricane stories appear, you get an email. You can pick the frequency upon which they appear and whether or not the alert scoura just the news or the entire web.

Google Expands Alert Coverage

Instead of RSS feeds, Google offers email-based alert updates for news topics users choose to monitor. Whenever you establish an update, Google emails you to inform you the topic you are monitoring has changed or had content added.

Price Alerts Don’t Promote Shopping Or Browsing

I had a talk with my brother-in-law [who lives in Birmingham, Alabama] after he read my post on Oodle yesterday.

Stanford Alerts FBI On Computer Breach

There is no evidence of data stolen from the University’s Career Development Center at this time.

Sex Offender Wireless Alerts Launched

Service from ScanUSA allows for users to be alerted when a registered sex offender moves into their neighborhoods.

Amber Alerts Available To Wireless Phones

Amber Alerts issued when a child goes missing can now be received by cellular phone users.