News Alerts

carrie721 · #1 07-30-2006, 11:52 PM

I'm curious: who here uses Google or Yahoo alerts? I use Google, and most of mine are for my favorite artists: Stevie, FM, Bonnie Raitt, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand, Christine McVie, and Dolly Parton; but I also have separate alerts for linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics. What kind of topics do you have your alerts set for? Do you prefer Google, Yahoo, or another site?

amber · #2 07-30-2006, 11:53 PM

hmm, that sounds handy. I'll have to not be a retard for a few minutes and set some.
All I have is ticketmaster alerts.

I'd probably set some health/nutrition/exercise ones...coupons, free stuff, contests...

carrie721 · #3 07-30-2006, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

hmm, that sounds handy. I'll have to not be a retard for a few minutes and set some.
All I have is ticketmaster alerts.

I'd probably set some health/nutrition/exercise ones...coupons, free stuff, contests...

Ooh, I should set ticketmaster alerts! If you're going to set news alerts, I recommend Google ... I used Yahoo forever until I got sick of how slow and weird they were.

amber · #4 07-30-2006, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

Ooh, I should set ticketmaster alerts! If you're going to set news alerts, I recommend Google ... I used Yahoo forever until I got sick of how slow and weird they were.

Okay! Thanks for the tip.
Yahoo search engine is lame anyway, I know so because I read an article about their stock dropping, and them scrambling to make their search engine better, and google kicking their a** in advertising revenues.

carrie721 · #5 07-31-2006, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by amber

Okay! Thanks for the tip.
Yahoo search engine is lame anyway, I know so because I read an article about their stock dropping, and them scrambling to make their search engine better, and google kicking their a** in advertising revenues.

Good, yahoo needs some healthy competition. And by competition, I mean they have no chance of catching up. Wasn't there some meeting of the minds recently about improving search engines? I know people from google were there, and people from ask.com ...

speaking of ask.com, i HATE their commercials, where they essentially campaign against google for giving you too many options.

amber · #6 07-31-2006, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

Good, yahoo needs some healthy competition. And by competition, I mean they have no chance of catching up.

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Originally Posted by carrie721

Wasn't there some meeting of the minds recently about improving search engines? I know people from google were there, and people from ask.com ...

speaking of ask.com, i HATE their commercials, where they essentially campaign against google for giving you too many options.

Um, I think yes on the first one, and I can't remember ask.com commercials.
Actually, I heard about a big meeting where yahoo was there talking about how to improve theirs, but what do I know?

carrie721 · #7 07-31-2006, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by amber

Um, I think yes on the first one, and I can't remember ask.com commercials.
Actually, I heard about a big meeting where yahoo was there talking about how to improve theirs, but what do I know?

Here's what I was thinking of: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3397

amber · #8 07-31-2006, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

Here's what I was thinking of: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3397

Oh! I'll be darned. Well, good.

DrummerDeanna · #9 07-31-2006, 10:36 AM

Since I work in a newsroom and my entire afternoon (5 hours of it) is spent listening to news and the rest of the day consists of having news on in the background - and up on my desktop _ I don't really feel I need an alert thingy - of course for artist stuff it could be cool....

But I get my fill of news on a daily basis - in fact I become ignorant on the weekends, completely cutting myself off from anything "newsy"

SuzeQuze · #10 07-31-2006, 12:05 PM

It's funny you should ask, I just recently set one up for Stevie. Her name comes up so often! I get an email almost every day. I set it up on Google. The algorithm they set up for their web searches is pure genius. I can always find what I am looking for and always use them. Yahoo sucks, I'm so sick of them. But MySpace sucks worse.

carrie721 · #11 07-31-2006, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

It's funny you should ask, I just recently set one up for Stevie. Her name comes up so often! I get an email almost every day. I set it up on Google. The algorithm they set up for their web searches is pure genius. I can always find what I am looking for and always use them. Yahoo sucks, I'm so sick of them. But MySpace sucks worse.

I know, I'm surprised at how often I get Stevie alerts. And all my other artist alerts, actually. It's a great toy, these news alerts. We agree on Yahoo and Myspace

And Deanna - That's why I like the news alerts, actually. Because if I don't want to read depressing stories about monkey boy and the middle east, I don't have to wade through them to get to my fluff FM stories.