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In this video, we're going to be talking about google alerts and it can be found at ww w google.com

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forward slash alerts.

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So once you go to the page, you want to make sure that you're logged in your Google account, which

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I'm already signed in here.

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So as you can see, Google Alerts will monitor the Web for interesting new content and that's done by

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typing in the search field here.

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So for Olson purposes, Google Alerts is really handy and interesting tool because we can enter in names

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of our targets, people's names, businesses, any search criteria that you're looking for on that particular

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target or targets at the time?

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As soon as Google comes across it, it'll create a alert for you and email it off to you.

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So yeah, it makes things really handy.

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So for example, if I want to create an alert, say I'm searching on Udemy, I can simply type in Udemy

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and it's going to pull up a couple if it has anything right off the bat.

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It's going to show you the alerts out here and you can click in there.

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If you click on show options, you could set your little bit more granular search criteria, how often

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you want to search sources, language, region, how many results and where to deliver to.

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Once you set those criteria, you simply just click create alert and it's going to send you an alert

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for it.

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If you need to go back to edit it, simply click this little pencil looking icon.

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It'll take you back in there to to edit that search criteria.

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If it's not working for you or you want to narrow it down or broaden it later, or if you want to delete

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it, you can simply click the delete button.

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So again, again, this is Google Alerts, a very useful tool for ocean.