"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 14:22:00 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>I don't even know what a Google alert is! But I guess I am not missing
>>anything.
>
> Oh, Google alerts are quite handy! If there's a particular subject you
> are interested in, and you don't feel like scouring the internet every
> day looking for new postings and/or news stories on that subject, you
> can set up an alert for it, and Google will send you an email when
> something comes up.
>
I don't scour the internet every day for anything. Or stories on anything.
So probably would not be of use to me. And I sure wouldn't want an e-mail
for things like that.

> Here's the Google alert link for Canadians (I can't link to one for
> the US, for some reason):
>
> http://www.google.ca/alerts

Okay...