About
Adam Green, “Mr. Google Alerts”
Adam Green has been a software guy for the last 28 years.
In the 1980s he was a dBASE guru and wrote several industry must-have books, including Advanced dBASE II User’s Guide, dBase II User’s Guide, 101 Questions About dBASE III, dBASE III Plus to dBASE IV: The Language Bridge Book, and Object Oriented Programming with dBase for Windows.
During the Dot Com heyday he was the CTO of Andover.net, the leading Linux destination on the Internet at that time. After Andover.net went public, Adam took a break and breather from software to get a Masters Degree in the History of Science at Harvard. (Why? Because he could.)
In 2006, refreshed and ready to dive back into the tech waters, Adam re-entered the game again as the CEO and co-founder of Grazr Corp where he developed and continues to refine:
- Grazr, a feed merge and filtering service that combines a powerful RSS feed widget and a complete database management system for feeds
- VibeMetrix, a blog relationship/brand management application that makes it easy to identify influential bloggers and engage them through comments on their blogs
- AlertRank, a blog buzz and online reputation management tool that takes Google Alerts to the next level and makes it easier to organize, sort and analyze Google-gathered online news and blog postings.
It was when he started developing AlertRank that Adam began to dig deep into how Google Alerts worked … and so “Mr. Google Alerts” was born.
These are his tips. This is his blog. Enjoy!
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Question for you, if I may. I found you using Google and see that you’re a pro on Google Alerts. FYI – I am now following you on twitter. Here’s my question and I hope you can help. I am signed up for Google Alerts for many phrases tied to Home Staging in Atlanta. In the past two weeks, I have received alerts with blog posts that have nothing to do with home staging. For example, one of the alerts took me to a blog post on “how to avoid getting sick.” The only link is that they have a url that has home staging in it. I was quite certain that Google was looking at the content. However, given that several of the most recent posts have nothing to do with home staging, it would appear that they are looking at URL’s only. Is that accurate?