Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Research Blogs -> Inter Alia

Legal Research

: Inter Alia

Yotify -- Alert Nirvana?

Although RSS is still my tool of choice for delivering the latest news to me, there's one thing it doesn't do all that well -- alert me when the new stories on certain topics appear on the Internet. Sure, some search engines will generate an RSS feed for your search terms (and I hear Google is working on it as we speak), but I find that the results are often repeated over and over -- I still get RSS search results for sites that appeared years ago. That's why I love Google Alerts -- just plug in your search terms, and get an email whenever those terms appear on the Internet. It's like most of Google's other products -- it just works. But now I may have found a notifier service to lure me away from Google. Yotify is a notification site on steroids, giving you the ability to create alerts for more than 20 types of searches or sites. Yotify calls its alerts "Scouts," which have been created in the following areas: Shopping, Fun, Travel, Classifieds, News & Blogs, and Friends. You can track job postings, sales, housing, concert tickets, news stories, auctions, resumes, your name, and a whole bunch more. I'm particularly intrigued by the LinkedIn Scout, which allows you to track someone's public profile on the professional networking site. I've sent out a few scouts to see what they bring back -- I'll try to let you know how I like it in a couple of months.

Full post as published by Inter Alia on October 21, 2008 (boomark / email).