#google-alerts

“App Mention Alerts” Is A Google Alerts-Like Tool For Mobile App Developers

Developers wanting to keep an eyeball on their app’s download growth, chart position, revenues, user engagement patterns, and more have a number of tools at their disposal, like those from App Annie, Distimo, AppFigures, Flurry, and other analytics providers. But when it comes to keeping track of press mentions and blogger reviews, many still turn to plain ol’ Google Alerts. Today, a brand-new…

Fixed: Any good alternative to Google Alerts? #development #computers #fix

Any good alternative to Google Alerts?

Google Alerts is a decent web application, and I use it for following some topics, but I receive one email pr. topic every day, and it’s a bit hard to track.

Are there any good alternatives, for example one that would enable me to follow multiple topics and get notified on news in different categories?

Something that combines social media, web search, news…

Resolved: How to configure Google Alerts for different languages? #computers #solution #development

How to configure Google Alerts for different languages?

How can I configure Google Alerts to send me alerts in different languages?

At the moment it alerts me for a certain term only in Italian, that is my default language. But now I would like to configure the same alert but that returns also English results.

How can I do it?

Answer [by Marcel]: How to configure Google Alerts for different…

How-to: Google alerts for images #development #programming #computers

Google alerts for images

We use Google alerts quite allot to keep in touch with whats being said about our company, but what we’ve found really useful lately is using the reverse image search tool in Google Images to search for our images appearing around the web. However, this is a manual and quite tedious process and we were wandering whether it was possible to do a “reverse image search Google…

Fixed: How to create a citation alert for a paper without citation in Google Scholar #it #dev #solution

How to create a citation alert for a paper without citation in Google Scholar

In theory, creating a citation alert with Google Scholar is easy. Search for the paper, click on the “Cited by X” link just below the result, scroll down and click on “Create alert”, and finally confirm by clicking on “Create alert”.

However this works only for articles that already have at least one citation. If an…

How to: Convert Google Scholar alert into RSS feed #dev #computers #fix

Convert Google Scholar alert into RSS feed

I have created a Google Scholar email alert and I’m trying to figure out how to turn that into an RSS feed. Google Scholar alerts has no RSS feed option, unfortunately. Below is a picture of what the alert looks like in email. I’m trying to use Gmail filters in combination with a service like ifttt.com to automatically turn alert emails into RSS. THe…

Solution: How do I get Google Alerts into My Google Reader when I have a Google Apps Account? #fix #development #solution

How do I get Google Alerts into My Google Reader when I have a Google Apps Account?

Would like to use Google Alerts with my Google Apps account and manage via Google Reader. It appears that one can’t associate a Google Alerts created/managed under a Google Apps account and send it to a “feed” the same way one can do this from a standard Google account. Wonder whether there is a way around this.

A…

How-to: Any good alternative to Google Alerts? #computers #programming #solution

Any good alternative to Google Alerts?

Google Alerts is a decent web application, and I use it for following some topics, but I receive one email pr. topic every day, and it’s a bit hard to track.

Are there any good alternatives, for example one that would enable me to follow multiple topics and get notified on news in different categories?

Something that combines social media, web search, news…