Add yellow, blue and green to that and you get Google alerts. I have to say that the Google alerts system is very good however I would urge anyone that is thinking about using the service to choose a weekly service rather than daily! My inbox has been peppered with emails and to be honest although entirely my fault it is rather annoying. To demonstrate this to you here’s a little snap shot of approximately 10% of all the alerts I have received…
Putting this annoyance to one side they are actually very helpful. Firstly is I just concentrate on the Carling cup, there are a considerable amount more of these than for Hotelympia. I believe this is due to the incredible popularity of football in this country. There is a total attendance in excess of 39million at regulated football matches per year. Granted there will be some return visitors i.e. season ticket holders, but that is just under two thirds of the UK’s population. A pretty substantial figure! This table is actually to show the amount of arrests made a football matches but it does show the amount of attendees at football games throughout the country and breaks it down a little more…
However the news that Google alerts are picking up for the football is totally different to the type of news for being displayed for Hotelympia. For the ‘bigger’ matches in football the Carling cup final being one of them, there are so many pre match interviews with various players, managers and pundits that hit the news every day. This is without the constantly changing environment in football such as injuries, media speculation or potential punishments due to players getting sent off. Combine all this with the popularity of the sport and it’s inevitable to get so many links through Google alerts.
When compared to the build-up to Hotelympia were the alerts are something like Raymond Blanc OBE gaining a ‘Hall of Fame’ lifetime achievement award or companies that will have a stand at the trade show announcing what latest product they will be unveiling at the event. Below is a screen shot of an email for each on the same day…
Apologise that the latter is a little small I was just try to demonstrate the difference between the two.
Just a short conclusion once again that I can definitely recommend Google alerts they can be very informative and Google does all the hard work so you don't have to. However please think carefully when you click that box as to whether you receive E-mails daily or weekly!
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