Groups Alerts

Google Groups contains information published through Usenet news groups on the Internet. Google Groups is one interface to that system and tracking information in some of these groups can prove to be very important. Many of the Google Groups contain important technical and business information. Searches through Google Groups can support research performed using Google Finance (http://finance.google.com).

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Find more information about Google Finance in Chapter 16.

When you follow the postings in more than a single news group, keeping track of these posts can become a complex and time-consuming task. Thanks to Google’s technology and Google Alerts, tracking the information posted in Google Groups becomes easier. Similar to Google News Alerts, you can receive an alert each time something is posted to the groups you specify that match your topic search.

To create a Google Group alert, navigate to the Google Alerts page. On the Manage your Alerts page, type a search term. For the Type, select Groups. Select how often you want to receive the alert and click Create Alert. The new alert then appears in the list of alerts displayed in the Your Google Alerts section of the page. From this section you can choose to edit the alert or delete it completely.