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eli on March 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: An Open Letter to Google: Google Alerts Now Useles...

Uh, those alerts appear to be set to find "Only the best results" rather than "All Results". So, yeah, you're getting fewer of them.

Or am I missing something?

gwern on March 21, 2013 [–]

I have a variety of Alerts set to both Best and All. Both have seen substantial falls in hits over the years. (And really, did you think no one would've pointed this out yet if that were the real cause?)

eli on March 21, 2013 | [–]

Well, every alert shown in the screenshots is set that way.

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