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

[Brad Judy <win-hied () BRADJUDY COM>]

Having attended a presentation by this group, I'll note that their tool does not necessarily conform to the terms of 
use for the services.  Use wisely.  

Brad Judy

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Nathan
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] A substitute for Google Alerts / Circumventing Google restrictions on spam suppression

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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