Google Alerts: Get the news you want

First, I’m busy finishing up my last internship with the company I plan on working for and they’re handing out full-time offers before the end of next week. That means these last couple weeks have been like finals that just don’t end and with a big ol’ jackpot at the end if I get an A on everything. Needless to say, my mind has not been really on the site.

But! I did find something that might help those looking for internships or jobs and want to know more about a company or topic.

When you go to interview, the company wants to know you’re interested in them and not just the money. Knowing about what’s going on with the company is not only a good way to do personal research, but also to show them you care.

It personally takes me too much time to sift through the news daily to find stories of interest.  Google News lets you search for news stories containing keywords, but I’m not going to do that everyday. Luckily, there’s Google Alerts.

Google Alerts lets you take a search in Google and will alert you through email when a news story appears. You can have it tell you as it happens, once daily, or once weekly. It’s like an RSS feed that works through simple mail.

This is perfect for me and has opened my eyes about several things going on in my company of interest so I thought I’d share. As a side note, I also have one that emails me when a new Student+Tablet+PC story appears ^_^.

6 Responses to “Google Alerts: Get the news you want”

1. Amit Agarwal Says:
   August 7th, 2007 at 10:12 pm

   A small Alerts trick that you may enjoy

   » Send me an alert whenever there’s a new story published on Forbes covering either Google or Yahoo:

   google OR yahoo source:forbes

2. Cheesse Says:
   August 8th, 2007 at 10:06 am

   This is great information, since I will be having to deal with this stuff in a year or so.

   Thanks!

3. Ross Says:
   August 8th, 2007 at 11:51 am

   Even better are the RSS feeds you can get from any search in Google News, enter your search, and click the RSS feed icon on the left to add to your favorite reader!

4. Tracy Hooten Says:
   August 8th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

   Nice trick!

5. Olly Says:
   August 11th, 2007 at 7:06 am

   Hi Tracey Sorry to barge in here with a different subject, but I couldn’t see how to contact you any other way.

   I recently listened to your Paperless challenge podcasts with Eric Mack (while lying on a beach in the South of France =) and I am extremely keen to read the link you mention in the first podcast from Matt, about hyperlinking to various documents and pages in PDF docs etc.

   I can’t for the life of me find Matt’s comments in your website.

   Loving your work Olly

6. Tracy Hooten Says:
   August 11th, 2007 at 8:06 pm

   Hi Olly,

   No problem ^^. Try this link for the comment: http://www.studenttabletpc.com/2005/11/imhavingfunwith_mindmanager.html

   …and this link for the hyperlinking: http://www.infomindsolutions.com/HowToMM/

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