And I've known human resource professionals and recruiters who set alerts for the names of job candidates. I have an alert notify me of new Twitter apps. For example, one alert notifies me of any news related to "Google Apps," while another tracks "cloud computing." When I ran a nonprofit, I set an alert for the name of the organization. I've set alerts to track companies, people, products, and topics. Google Alerts serve all sorts of purposes. SEE: For tech news, quit RSS and follow these 12 on Twitter (TechRepublic) Benefits of alerts (If you want to explore RSS readers, I'd suggest either Feedly or Inoreader.) But many people will likely prefer Google Alerts sent to Inbox by Gmail and grouped in a bundle. Since I use an RSS reader and my alerts aren't time sensitive, this setup works for me. For example, Google Alerts sends an alert to my RSS reader anytime a new page with my name appears. Of course, a few people-mostly geeks and news hounds-receive Google Alerts in an RSS reader. For example: site: will monitor results only from the New York Times' site. Limiting your search to a single domain with the site: term.For example, -"New York Times" excludes results that include the phrase. Placing a hyphen in front of a term to exclude results with that term.Without quotes, pages that include any combination of the three words, new, times, and York, display. For example, "New York Times" finds mentions of the newspaper. Adding quotes to search for a specific phrase. For applications targeting platforms starting with onSaveInstanceState(android.os.Bundle) will always be called after onStop(), so an.Improve your search criteria to improve your alert results.
(If you use Google Apps and can't access Inbox, check with your administrator.) SEE: Five ways to avoid email overload and regain control of your Outlook inbox (Tech Pro Research)
To try Inbox, go to or install the Inbox Android or iOS app on your mobile device. Google now enables Inbox by Gmail by default for schools and nonprofits, as well as for Gmail accounts.
See Jack Wallen's " How to create your own Bundles in Google Inbox" for details.) For both file types, The MSI installer ProductVersion differs from the Chrome version number. Choose this if you only want the latest version of Chrome.
(For even more control, create different bundles for different alerts and customize notifications for each bundle. Bundle The Bundle download includes the Chrome MSI installer, ADM/ADMX templates with 300+ user and device policies, Legacy Browser Support Native Host and manageable automatic updates. Not interested in the alerts? Mark the entire bundle done and move on to other things.
Alerts can flood your inbox, but they'll all be put in the bundle until you choose to review and/or archive them. Instead of showing each email individually, Inbox by Gmail gathers your alerts into a bundle. That's when Inbox by Gmail comes in handy. But try to track several popular topics and alerts can fill your email quickly. With one or two alerts that track rarely used keywords, you might receive an occasional alert. Most people receive Google Alerts in email. Google notifies you when the search engine indexes a page that matches terms you choose.