Libya army intervenes in Sabha. Libya's General National Congress on Saturday (January 18th) declared a state of emergency, after fresh clashes erupted in the southern town of Sabha. At least 30 people have died since the fighting between local tribes broke out last week. Just since Friday, a 14 year-old boy was shot dead in Kufra, gunmen kidnapped a South Korean businessman in Tripoli, criminal gangs and cops clashed in Janzour, two Italian construction workers went missing in Derna and three soldiers were killed near the Sarir oilfield.
The situation in Sabha is particularly worrisome, however, since it may be linked to Kadhafi loyalists, according to GNC deputy Abdelkader Ahouili. On Friday, mortars struck the headquarters of the military governor, Sabha residents told Magharebia. The national army intervened with warplanes to stop the shelling. "The situation needs troops to support the moves of the sages and the elders," Sabha Local Council chief Ayoub Al-Zaroug told Magharebia. Setting Up Google Alerts for Twitter Automation. The first place to start the Twitter automation process is by setting up several Google Alerts, which will monitor Google results (news, blogs, Web, video) in real-time for the latest updates on search queries (keywords) or topics of interest that are important to you or your business.
For example, if your blog was focused on the keyword “making money online”, every time that search query appeared in Google results, you would be alerted to those updates. Seeding your Twitter account with these real-time updates of your important keywords can help your followers and keep your Twitter stream flowing with keyword rich content in your niche. To setup your Google Alerts, you’ll first need a Google account (preferably a Gmail account) to start.If you don’t have a Gmail account, just go here to register (it’s free)After signing up for your Gmail account, sign-in to Google Alerts here. Now, it’s time to set up your feeds … Are Google Alerts dying a slow death? With Google Reader officially on death row, I'm starting to wonder if another widely used but rarely promoted Google content service might also be on its way to extinction. I'm talking about Google Alerts, a simple little product that lets you set up email alerts to monitor the Web for specific terms.
You can create a Google Alert for your name or company name, for instance, and then get emails alerting you to every new mention of the term across the Internet each day. Google Alerts are incredibly useful for anyone who needs to track discussion and coverage of an individual, company, product, or topic. But lately, they've been noticeably unreliable. I use Google Alerts to watch for new mentions of my name, among other things. That lets me get a daily digest of blogs and news stories that reference me in some way (often, admittedly, with expletives attached). For the last few months, I've noticed that my Google Alerts have been lacking in content. Google Alerts Slowing Down? Stay Informed With These Seven Information Trapping Tips. I read a recent blog post at Search Engine Roundtable noting that Google Alerts had had its algorithm tweaked and because of that fewer alerts had been going out.
(There was also a pointer explaining what to do to loosen things a bit so more alerts go out.) I had noticed that I wasn’t getting as many alerts as I had been, but I was comfortable that I wasn’t missing too many stories. As I thought about it though I realized that if you are using Google Alerts — and only Google Alerts — for keeping track of new stories and new resources, this change to the algorithm might have thrown for your a loop.
So to make sure that doesn’t happen again, and potentially to give you some new ideas, here are six tips for making the most of alerts for information trapping purposes. 1. Allow for Overlap — When I wrote Information Trapping a few years ago, there was plenty on Google Alerts and Web search, but nothing on Facebook or Twitter. Don’t do it. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Happy trapping! Like this: Trends - Web Search Interest: google alerts - Worldwide, 2004 - present. An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Broken, Now Useless To Financial Marketers. Dear Google, For years, you maintained one of the simplest, most powerful tools on the internet: Google Alerts. Anyone with a Google account could just sign in and create an email alert for any subject that interested them.
All you had to do was type in a search term and enter your email address. From then on, whenever Google found new search results for that term, they would email you an alert. If, for instance, you wanted to monitor mentions of your company, or your competitors, or industry trends like “gamification” or “big data,” you could create Google Alerts and receive a steady stream of new articles, blog posts, websites, press releases, videos, etc. — right in your inbox. Since The Financial Brand was launched back in 2008, the site has relied heavily on Google Alerts.
Three of the 50 Google Alerts that The Financial Brand once used. But things have changed. Reports about Google Alerts breakdown are all over the place (here, here, here, here, here and here for instance).