A First.... Google News Feed Leads To Thaivisa

[sriracha john]

As someone who has more than a passing interest in Thailand-related news, I have a number of news alerts for selective keywords affliated with Yahoo News and Google News, among others. These news alerts are sent via emails.

Just now, for the first time, an email notification came from Google News alerting me to a news item. Interestingly, rather than being taken to some news source such as CNN or Bloomberg to read the article, it took me to a new Thaivisa thread, which had triggered the alert as it's topic contained the key words.

Seemed very odd... and as I wasn't sure if anyone at Thaivisa knew this could happen, so I thought I'd let them know.

Edited May 28, 2007 by sriracha john

[Jai Dee]

Which thread John?

[george]

We are in a BETA group for Google News, and they are testing different feeds from us. First time I have heard it shows up, though. Could you please upload a screen shot of that alert email from Google please?

Cheers

[sriracha john]

Notification email of keyword alert:

Subject.htm

for the thread

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?sh...p;#entry1326607

[george]

This is not Google News alerts, this was Google Web alerts (new web pages)

[sriracha john]

This is not Google News Alerts, this was Google Web Alerts (new web pages)

It was made as a news alert in the Google news section.

As a test of the procedure for Google, I just tried it again and when you click "Make a news alert" while in Google news, it opens "Create a Google Alert" window. Evidently for this particular news feed, I selected "comprehensive" which includes News, Blogs, Web, and Groups.

I've never gotten any other emails other than News for these alerts.