{"id":7238,"date":"2013-04-03T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7238"},"modified":"2013-04-03T20:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:31:24","slug":"google-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/google-alerts\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/03\/21\/google-alerts-broken-useless-and-slowed-to-a-trickle\/\">Rebecca Grant<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2013\/04\/02\/regressing\">Brent Simmons<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/03\/21\/google-alerts-broken-useless-and-slowed-to-a-trickle\/\"><p>People on online forums, publications, and blogs say their Google Alerts have dwindled to the point of uselessness. Trade publication The Financial Brand reported that its Google Alerts have slowed to a &ldquo;trickle,&rdquo; with the volume decreasing by at least 80% and dropping from 20-35 emails per day with 4-12 results down to 4-8 emails per day with 1-3 results each. Furthermore, &ldquo;the results are crummier than ever.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve noticed this as well.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Grant (via Brent Simmons): People on online forums, publications, and blogs say their Google Alerts have dwindled to the point of uselessness. Trade publication The Financial Brand reported that its Google Alerts have slowed to a &ldquo;trickle,&rdquo; with the volume decreasing by at least 80% and dropping from 20-35 emails per day with 4-12 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,405,96],"class_list":["post-7238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-googlealerts","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7238\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}