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

[Tara Calishain]

Phil, I'm trying to catch up on my e-mail and I don't know if anyone
answered this.

I currently have 148 active Google Alerts. I used to have more but they
were on another account for work. I think I had 200+ at one point.

I've written a number of articles on making the most of Google Alerts, but
I consider it a constant battle to get more wheat than chaff.

Possibly this is not an interesting Google Alerts story. Apologies.

Tara


On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 8:32 PM Phil Shapiro <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:

>    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
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>         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.
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> 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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