Last updated: August 30, 2023
Wouldn’t it be great if you could have all the latest news, blog posts, and articles related to your interests delivered right to your inbox? With Google Alerts, you can. Google automatically emails alerts to you whenever new content that matches your search terms hits the web. Results include web pages, news articles, blog posts, books, videos, scientific research, and more. Keep reading to learn how Google Alerts bring critical content to your inbox.
Here’s how it works: tell Google the interests, competitors, and/or people you want to monitor and how often you want to receive results, and Google takes care of the rest. Specify from which region and language you want results, then sit back and let the information come to you. Google Alerts is an incredibly powerful tool that helps you stay on top of the latest news and trends, and it is 100% free to use. Create up to 1000 Google Alerts per email address.
Create a Google Alert
Creating a Google Alert is simple and only takes a few minutes. Here’s how to do it:
Step 1. Visit the Google Alerts web page. Sign into Google if you are not already logged in.
Step 2. Input a search term in the Create an alert about… field. For this tutorial, we input Android 14 as our search term.
Step 3. Click the Show options link next to the Create Alert button. Select how often you want to receive results, sources, language, region, how many, and the delivery email address (or RSS feed).
Step 4. Click the Create Alert button. Google sends alert emails to you whenever they find matching search results.
Manage Your Google Alerts
Step 1. Visit the Google Alerts web page. Sign into Google if you are not already logged in.
Step 2. Click the Edit icon to change the alert options set in Step 3 above.
Step 3. Click the Delete icon to permanently delete the alert and stop receiving alert emails for this term.
Do not be surprised if you need to tinker with the alert options over time. For popular search terms, you may want to select At most once a day or At most once a week instead of As-it-happens lest your inbox becomes overrun with Google Alert emails.
Thank you for visiting Tech Help Knowledgebase to learn how Google Alerts bring critical content to your inbox.
Henry Irvine, Contributing Technology Writer, translates more than a decade of internet technology experience in product and customer relationship management into practical help and how-to content. Look for him on Bay Area trails, music venues, or sausage shacks when he’s not writing. Don’t call him Hank if you see him. Seriously. Hank on Twitter
