Get Information on Newly Indexed Pages From Googlert

Every day someone has fun with the Google API. The latest evidence is the Google search alert Googlert, at http://www.googlert.com/ . This service can be set up to run Google searches and send you URLs of newly-indexed pages by e-mail.

The first thing you should know about this site is that you'll have to have a Google API key in order to use it. So if you don't have one, go to http://www.google.com/apis/ and register to get one. It's without cost.

Got it? Okay, back to Googlert. When you get to the site you'll be asked to choose a user name and password and an e-mail address. You'll also be asked to enter your Google API key.

Once you've registered, you'll be able to set up your Googlerts. You'll have the opportunity to set up to five searches, using Google's format (that means Google's special syntaxes, etc.) You will also have the option to specify how many results you want for each search. You may not request more than a total of 100 results for your five searches -- so you can have one search with 100 results, or two with 50 each, or three which have 50, 30, and 20 results, etc. You'll also have the option to only run the searches when you visit the site, or you can have the searches run automatically and the results e-mailed to you. Searches can be run every day, every two days, twice weekly, or once a week.

When you first run a search and get results, you'll get a ton of results because the search has never been run before. Afterwards you'll get far fewer results, unless you're running a very general search. When your search brings up new results, Googlert will send you a brief e-mail with the title, brief snippet, and URL from the pages that were found.

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