Google Alerts is a service offered by search engine company Google which notifies you (by email) about the latest web and news pages of your choice.

Google currently offers three types of alerts: "News", "Web", and "News & Web". A News alert is an email that lets you know if new articles make it into the top ten results of your Google News search. A Web alert is an email that lets you know if new web pages appear in the top twenty results for your Google Web search. A News & Web alert is an email that lets you know when new articles related to your search term make it into the top ten results for a Google News search or the top twenty results for a Google Web search.

The service can help track new pages for any topic (such as celebrities, computers, animals). Google Alerts are available in plain text as well as HTML.

See also

• List of Google services and tools

External links

• Google Alerts website