Talk:Google Alerts

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Fair use rationale has now been added [1]. -- SiobhanHansa 23:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stub[edit]

Would someone (with more Wikipedia experience than myself) please review this article and either remove the stub classification or explain what is required to get it removed? Thanx

NetScr1be 13:24, 9 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pboake (talk • contribs)

Instructions for usage[edit]

Can someone put on the page how to actually use the page? I understand how to use the different fields, but I don't know what I need to put into the "Search query" field to get a desired result. Thanks. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 16:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Difference between Google Alerts and ordinary Google search[edit]

It would be very helpful if this article could explain the differences between the results that are found with Google Alerts and the ordinary Google search. Especially when a Google Alert is in place for years and no results are found, but entering the exact same search as an ordinary Google search will find multiple recent occurrences. Is there an algorithm that determines which Alerts will be ignored and if so how does it work? Perhaps this behavior is a bug and Google Alerts has been abandoned by Google and is no longer supported? Google Alerts does not appear on the list of Google products: https://www.google.com/intl/en/about/products/ Lloyd Ewing (talk) 21:33, 20 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]