Free ’spy’ service!

22Jun08

The world wide web is a place of mass info, mostly helpful, but sometimes it could be dangerous. It can be a free space where people can blackmail you, post anonymous hate letter, or worse still, talk bad about you behind your back!

Well you can’t stop what people want to say or comment about you, but it is possible to ‘spy‘ or know what people is talking behind your back.

Welcome to the world of ‘Google Alerts’, not a new service, nor a spy service either, but if you know how to make use of its feature, it can turn out to be a good, free, spy service for you.

Google Alert, which the name implies, alerts you about anything that you want to be alerted. For example if you want to be alerted about news on Britney Spears, simply type the name in the alert box, and every single entry of Britney Spears on the internet will be sent to your email.

Got the idea? To ’spy’ for you, simply type in your name, or nickname that you usually use or be called upon. For example in my case, I want to be alerted on ‘goch’ and ‘goch1988′. I’ll be alerted for the latest entry on these two words. So anytime someone put in their blog: goch sux! he’s a total …etc etc.., I’ll be alerted! haha (okay don’t try that, lol)

Here’s some example:

This morning, I’m being alerted on my own blog entry, since my blog is registered under my nickname.

Well not all the time we get what we want to know, but it’s kinda interesting and worth a try.

And not all the time we get bad entries, some can be good too (just got this few mins ago):

(latest blog entry by wen sher! haha, we went movie the other day at MV)

Hope it helps And happy trying…

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