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« on: July 13, 2008, 03:59:32 AM » |
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I signed up with Google alerts at www.googlealerts.com. If your name is posted anywhere on the web including a winners list, you will be notified by email. It's free and it works, I have been notified when my last name was mentioned in an article in France. |
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« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2008, 05:17:29 AM » |
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what a great idea!
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« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2008, 07:16:05 AM » |
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Unfortunately my last name shows up all the time, due to the Simpsons  I expect this works really well for folks with less common names, however. |
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« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2008, 07:25:45 AM » |
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The only time it's ever worked for me was when I already knew about the wins weeks or months before the alert.
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« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2008, 07:45:44 AM » |
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Unfortunately my last name shows up all the time, due to the Simpsons I expect this works really well for folks with less common names, however. Boy ain't that the truth! When your last name is Murphy you get all the specials at Papa Murphy's! |
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« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2008, 07:48:08 AM » |
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Pretty Cool!!! I have a very unique German last name from my husband so it wasen't too many results. Thanks for posting!!!!  |
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« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2008, 11:01:47 AM » |
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I guess when you have a more common name like Smith or Jones, not that there's anything wrong with them, you could be flooded with alerts. It would only work well for someone like me who's last name is very rare in this country.
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2008, 11:07:54 AM » |
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I guess when you have a more common name like Smith or Jones, not that there's anything wrong with them, you could be flooded with alerts. It would only work well for someone like me who's last name is very rare in this country.
Or not a phrase used for lemurs being sexually attracted to camera lenses  . Did I mention I plan to change my name?  |
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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2008, 09:59:04 AM » |
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I have google alerts and anytime there was a judicial decision by a Judge I knew about it. So I added my first name. I don't get too many anymore, but my husband sure does with his name. If there is anyone named Thomas, first or last, that goes before any Judge we know it. |
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« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2008, 07:52:08 AM » |
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I signed up but ran into a problem when I found out that my name, Rebecca Lord, is also the name of a Porn star. Lucky me, apparently I am mentioned alot but not for the stuff I would like. Kind of funny but a little annoying, although I now know which people watch porn by the way they react to my name. |
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2008, 09:49:34 AM » |
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I signed up but ran into a problem when I found out that my name, Rebecca Lord, is also the name of a Porn star. Lucky me, apparently I am mentioned alot but not for the stuff I would like. Kind of funny but a little annoying, although I now know which people watch porn by the way they react to my name. Too freaking cool! |
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2008, 10:04:36 AM » |
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We've been using Google Alert for awhile now and have an uncommon last name. Same thing here. We get the alerts after the fact, when we were already informed of a win or received the win. Sometimes, they even resend old ones. We only got one once that was a new one we didn't know about.
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« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2008, 10:59:21 AM » |
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I signed up for the google alerts and then I read about some tricks you can use to narrow down the results.
Put your name in between quotation " " marks with words like sweeps, sweepstakes, win, winner or your state and city outside the quotations.
I signed up for several notifications and use my first name then the last letter of my name, my full name, and a user name that I commonly use in sweeps.
I also read that if you have a shared name with someone (like someone wrote above with a porn star) you can do the alerts and at the end of them you could use the -sign to eliminate a certain subject -porn.
Good luck everyone! Jeff
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2008, 02:25:02 AM » |
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Thanks for the tips! I signed up for the google alerts and then I read about some tricks you can use to narrow down the results.
Put your name in between quotation " " marks with words like sweeps, sweepstakes, win, winner or your state and city outside the quotations.
I signed up for several notifications and use my first name then the last letter of my name, my full name, and a user name that I commonly use in sweeps.
I also read that if you have a shared name with someone (like someone wrote above with a porn star) you can do the alerts and at the end of them you could use the -sign to eliminate a certain subject -porn.
Good luck everyone! Jeff
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