[Ipg-smz] Your most interesting Google Alert story?

[Phil Shapiro]

Here is my most interesting Google Alert story. 

At the end of August, 2013, I spotted this YouTube video -- the "bicycle elevator" -- with fewer than 200 views. I told 
MAKE magazine about this video and they wrote two articles about it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5FSWkjFPxs 

On a lark, I decided to create a Google Alert for " Ethan Schlussler." I could then easily monitor how far this story traveled around the 
world. 

And boy did this story travel. CNN put the video on their web site -- ABC News featured it. And then Good Morning America showed the video. 

And then the Daily Telegraph newspaper, in England, wrote about the bicycle elevator. 

My sense is that my email to MAKE magazine set this ball in motion, although it's possible it wasn't me, too. 

When my work day is not too busy, I check my Google Alert to see how far news about Ethan Schlussler had traveled. I'm expecting it to show 
up in Mongolian newspapers right about now. 

Do you have any interesting Google Alert stories to share? What's the most unusual Google Alert you've set up? 

Phil 




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