Google is a very extensive tool these days with their latest updates making it EVEN easier for us to keep tabs on how our music is doing in the internet world.
I'm going to break this down into 2 sections : Alerts & Searches.
Part 1 : Google Alerts - For those who don't know about this, you'll really be able to keep tabs on yourself now!
Step 1 : Set up a google account.
Go to : https://www.google.com/accounts/Login
If you already have a google account, sign in if not, make one!
Step 2 : Open the alert application for your google account.
Step 3 : Set up an Alert.
Obviously, substitute Legend4ry for your own name
.You can also set up a forwarding email address via your google account, if you don't want to check your gmail every time you want to see if you got an alert but if you're like me and use Desktop emailing then just add it to your accounts.
So what does this ACTUALLY do?
Every time a new hit appears on google, including what you input the alert as (in my case, Legend4ry) you get sent an email telling you what website the content appears on.
Part 2 : Searching - taking advantage of Google's new filters.
What a lot of people from what I have seen haven't realized is that google has recently (in the last couple of months) made it 20 times easier to filter what kind of thing you're searching for... So heres just a quick over view
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So for a quick run down...
Everything means - Well, everything.
Video means - Shows ALL video websites which contain a video what has the word you searched
Images - All images with your search word as the title/some relevance.
Maps - Not important
News - Searches all the main News websites.
Shopping - Not important.
Books - Not important, unless you're being published
.Blogs - Searches all the main blog portals. Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr and any website what has itself as Blog.
Updates - Searches Twitter.
Discussions - Searches forums.
Hope this little tutorial helps!
