[CS-FSLUG] Infamy alert service?

[Jon Mark Allen]

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On Friday 05 January 2007 22:13, Legatus wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone ever heard of a service which alerts people when their name
> > freshly appears on any website? I'm supposing this is the sort of thing
> > that tracks press coverage.
> >
> > Apparently my search terms are too generic, because I can't locate such
> > a thing by search engine. BTW, this is not about me.
> >
> > --
> > Ed Hurst
>
> The best I can think of is to do a search for your name in google, and then
> use the rss feed it creates to monitor for new hits.

Talking specifically of Google, it's called Google Alerts, and it can be for 
any search term you're interested in.

http://www.google.com/alerts

I'm sure other search engines have them, but that's the only one I'm familiar 
with.

JM

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