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Google Alerts provides e-mail updates of the latest relevant Google results based on your query or subject. It measn you receive an e-mail notification whenever something happens in your field.



Click here to create an alert with the form and click here to manage your subscriptions.





It currently offers four types of alert searches:

• News: an e-mail about new articles that make it into the top ten results of your Google News search.
  
  
• Web: an e-mail about new web pages that appear in the top twenty results for your Google Web search.
  
  
• Comprehensive: an e-mail containing the combination of both above.
  
  
• Groups: an e-mail about new posts make it into the top fifty results of your Google Groups search.
  
  

It also lets you determine how often you would like to receive an e-mail notification. Three options are available:

• once a day
• once a week
• as it happens

If you would like to be up-to-date about surgery, you should use this:

"surgery" [Type: Comprehensive, How Often: as it happens]

If you would like to know whether there is a new article about surgery on Nature.com, you should use this:

"surgery site:www.nature.com" [Type: Web, How Often: once a week]

If you would like to know whether anyone published a new article about surgery in the USA, you should use this:

"surgery location:USA" [Type: Web, How Often: once a week]

If you would like to know whether anyone linked to your site or blog, you should use this:

"link:nameofmysite.com" [Type: Web, How Often: as it happens]