Overloaded with Information on the Web? Google Alerts Could be Your Solution!
In today’s society the internet has a lot of useful information to keep faculty and students up-to-speed on current research and trends in specific disciplines. However, sometimes because of the amount or volume of information readily available at your finger tips, it can be overwhelming. One solution is Google alerts.
Google tracks new content on the web, so you can use Google Alerts – to monitor new content of interest and have it emailed to you with links to the articles or news.
The Google Alerts home page explains how this is useful for the following activities:
- monitoring a developing news story
- keeping current on a competitor or industry
- getting the latest on an event
To set up an alert, use the form on the right hand side of the Google alerts home page and enter:
- the search terms you are looking for
- the type of monitoring you want to take place, the default is “Everything”, i.e. news, blogs, web and videos
- how often you want to receive an email and its length
- your email address – where you want to receive the alerts.
Once you have set up the alert, you will start receiving emails with links to new content, e.g. here is one email I received based on my Google Alert for “social learning.”
If you have a Google account, you can sign in to manage your alerts – i.e. amend or delete existing ones and/or add new ones.
Happy Searching!
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