--- description: Review of Google Alerts Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Google Alerts | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Monitoring Software](/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) > [Google Alerts](/software/181066/google-alerts) # Google Alerts Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/181066/google-alerts Page: 1 / 14\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/181066/google-alerts?page=2) > Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, which sends email alerts to subscribers when the system finds specific search results or mentions of terms across web pages, blogs, newspaper articles, topics and more. The system automatically monitors the content posted across multiple sources and send notifications based on users’ interests. Google Alerts allows subscribers to configure the frequency of notifications as daily, weekly or monthly. Additionally, users can change settings related to types of websites to search, language preferences, geographical locations, number of results to be displayed and add or remove email accounts for receiving information. Google Alerts uses indexing capabilities to analyze online content, match specific keywords and store results in a database. The service is available for free and support is extended via an online help center. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 315 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 315 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Google ## Commercial Context - **Pricing model**: (Free version available) - **Pricing Details**: Google Alerts is offered as a free solution. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian - **Available Countries**: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Activity Tracking - Alerts/Notifications - Email Alerts - For Websites - Keyword Tracking - Mobile Alerts - Monitoring - Search/Filter - Website Monitoring ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) ## Related Categories - [Website Monitoring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4550/website-monitoring/software) - [Competitive Intelligence Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4206/competitive-intelligence/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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We use them on a daily basis for improving our touchpoints and customer engagement to show our brand in a good light. > > **Cons**: We need a lot of manual efforts to churn out the most useful information from the pool of links where topics of our alerts have been mentioned. It provides complete information that may consume a lot of time to hand-pick only useful information. > > Very good. They deliver you complete details \& mention the topics of alerts that have been set by you. ----- ### "Google Alerts Review" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *30 April 2022* | Education Management | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Google Alerts keeps me updated with the latest information. Which proves to be useful in my line of work. > > **Cons**: The specific words or search terms used and information shared might not be directly related to my area of expertise. The alerts on specific words at times are not directly relevant to the information I am seeking. > > My overall experience with Google Alerts has been good. I have benefitted from getting varied sources of information which I would not have to go and conduct time staking research on. ----- ### "No matter how many settings I make, I still don't get notices" — 3.0/5 > **Dreama** | *18 November 2020* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: Adding addresses is easy, and adding attendees to your notices is easy > > **Cons**: the alerts are sporadic at times. If I have nothing scheduled, I won't receive notices until I check the google calendar. frustrating ----- ### "we are able to conduct our online research & probes in half the time, for twice the results" — 5.0/5 > **Mohammed** | *6 July 2021* | Nonprofit Organisation Management | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Google alerts is the simplest business tool to set up, and it comes free of any charges. And one of the features I love most about the service is that the flexibility it gives me in setting up the frequency of alerts and notifications. For less urgent subjects, I am able to avoid the inconvenience or distraction real-time alerts would cause; and for the much more pressing ones, I am able to stay on in sync with developments as they happen. > > **Cons**: Given the increased relevance of social media, I think it would be a great addition if Google Alerts were expanded to cover content from major social media platforms as well, since a great majority of interactions happen there. > > For a free product, Google Alerts is an extremely powerful service that has allowed us to boost our productivity significantly. Our Grants team used to miss out on more than a few publications of funding opportunities and grant competitions, but that has not been the case since we started using Google Alerts to fish out keywords related to our grants of interest. It has really helped us. ----- ### "Google Alerts Review" — 5.0/5 > **Christopher** | *10 July 2021* | Arts & Crafts | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: The pros of this software are lots of them but is ease to use also it have a lot of options to get notified and alert to get attention of it > > **Cons**: This specific software has a little bit of cons because sometimes has a slow charging or make the alert lately for the cause of the internet > > My overall experience in this app is good and accurate with my schedule ----- Page: 1 / 14\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/181066/google-alerts?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/181066/google-alerts) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data