More Info than Brains

Google Alerts is now Google false alarms. It’s gotten to the point where about %70 of my daily emails were from Google Alerts, alerting me to things that have nothing to do with what I’m interested in. Obviously, depending on what you’d like to be alerted of, and the rarity of the terms, it used to be fairly accurate and filtered.

Google also, however, has their affiliate program, which allows any jackass to insert AdWords ads onto their website about small towns in New Guinea. Said jackass inserts billions of random terms into their metadata to increase their AdWords referral income, and all of a sudden I’m getting more junk-alert than red-alert.

So, suck it Google Alerts, you’ve killed yourself. I’m out.

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