New York Times Offers News Alerts

The New York Times is now offering a news alert service. Of course you will have to register to take advantage of this (registration is free) but if you are registered you can check it out at http://www.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html . You can specify keywords (ALL keywords, ANY keywords, or NOT INCLUDING specified keywords) with the option to specify that the keywords appear in the headline or byline only. You can also narrow an alert by newspaper section.

Once you've selected an alert you have the option to review it to see if there any recent articles matching your query (very handy for finding out if your search term is too general.) You've also got the option to specify when you want to get alerts (when the news appear, daily alerts, or weekly alerts) as well as the subject line of the alert.

This is interesting and a great addition to The New York Times. But you only get three alerts! What a bummer.

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