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nolabear

(41,960 posts)
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 04:02 PM Jan 2012

Ever "Google Alerts" yourself?

It can get interesting. I was just killed off in a mystery novel...

For the uninitiated, or those who DON'T have an interest in who's looking them up, you can Google "Google alerts" and find where to set up an alert that will send you an email notification whenever your specified phrase or name is googled. Sometimes you get ones where the name (especially one like mine that sounds like two first names) refers to more than one person and abberations like that, but you also get a fun sense of what those other than you with your name are up to. And of course you do get to see where you pop up.

I share a name with a painter whows work I really like and another person who co-authored a bizarre little book that I have to keep letting people know I didn't do.

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Ever "Google Alerts" yourself? (Original Post) nolabear Jan 2012 OP
Neat! arcane1 Jan 2012 #1
I've had Dylan and Alan Rickman as alerts for a few years. graywarrior Jan 2012 #2
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