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Re: A substitute for Google Alerts / Circumventing Google restrictions on spam suppression


From: "Routen, Nathan" <NRouten () MAIL TWU EDU>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:32:29 +0000

Jim,
Check out the (free) defensive and attacking tools by Stach&Liu. The Diggity Project.

http://www.stachliu.com/resources/tools/

Nate

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 19:05 -0400, James H. Moore wrote:
I have used Google alerts for years to keep an eye on our domain, to 
spot forums/forms that may be used to spam out scams.  I also used it 
for detecting other forms of back linking (e.g. Canadian Pharmacy 
stuff).


But Google now limits using their search engine for picking things 
like this up, they do some throttling efforts in limiting the number 
of searches.


Google alerts, that used to keep me informed when new "super viagra"
ads popped up in comment fields, is not nearly so useful now.  Only 
occasionally get notices.


What are people doing?  Private spiders?  Commercial spiders?
 Creative Google API programing?




Jim
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