An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless

Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by kayge on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @05:46PM (#5410609)

There was an alternative called Mention[1] that made the front page[2] of HN a few days ago, I have no idea how it compares in terms of features/quality/etc though:

[1]https://en.mention.net/

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5376180

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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by gwern on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @08:28PM (#5411829)

The pricing of Mention alone torpedoes it as a tool for anyone but a commercial entity: you need to pay them $120 a year to get like more than 5 searches! (5 searches wouldn't even cover my existing Google Alerts for just my family, to say nothing of all the other interesting things I want news of.)

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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by easytiger on Thursday March 21, 2013 @07:00AM (#5414202)

and they same to have a native client for win/lin/mac ... which is nice... but wouldnt a web portal be the way to do this

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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by welcometothesky on Friday March 22, 2013 @06:44PM (#5426249)

Hi, I'm a co-founder at mention. mention goes way beyond what Google Alerts can do. We're real-time, monitor way more sources (Twitter for example).

We do have native clients, but we also have a web and mobile version available. We'll soon be available right from your iPad too.

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Re:An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useless by easytiger on Saturday March 23, 2013 @01:16PM (#5428873)

ah cool. I'd put it on my list of platforms then, Windows, Mac, Linux, Web :)

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