Let Google search while you sleep.Q. To keep current, I regularly do Internet searches on my company's products, customers and competitors, but that takes a lot of time. Is there some way to program the computer to do such searches on a regular basis? A. Google, the Internet search engine, recently introduced a beta product called Google Alerts (see screenshot See screen shot. below). It's a free service that automatically does what you're now doing manually. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just provide Alerts with the key words for your queries and tell it how often you want to be alerted (once a week, once a day or as it happens) and whether you want to search the news, the Web or both. Alerts will send you an e-mail with every new thing it uncovers. To engage the service, go to www.googlealert.com. When I first discovered it, I signed up and entered my last name to test it. Within days it alerted me that a long-lost cousin had just won an award as a sports coach and confirmed that I write for the Journal of Accountancy. Key to Instructions To help readers follow the instructions in this article, we use two different typefaces This is a list of typefaces. Serif Here you can find a graphical version of this table.
* Boldface See boldface font. type is used to identify the names of icons, agendas and URLs. * Sans serif Short horizontal lines added to the tops and bottoms of traditional typefaces, such as Times Roman. Contrast with sans-serif.  type shows commands and instructions users should type into the computer and the names of files. STANLEY ZAROWIN, a former J of A senior editor, is now a contributing editor A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. Most often, a contributing editor is a freelancer who has proven ability and readership draw. to the magazine. His e-mail address See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address is zarowin@mindspring.com. |
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