February 10, 2007 at Google mistook itself as a spammer
Recently I saw here a link to a cheat sheet on Google services. I looked through it, among the services new to me, I studied Alerts - www.google.com/alerts I
set up several alerts on topics that interest me (related to sports) and set the frequency of “as-it-happens” to them (that is, it comes to me gmail alert when Google finds something in any source by a given key). What was my surprise when on the second day I found alerts from Google.Alerts for one of the keys in the Spam folder of the email!
So, they accepted themselves as spammers. Amazing :) So, if anyone uses Alerts, sometimes check the “spam” folder, maybe something interesting has accumulated there.
set up several alerts on topics that interest me (related to sports) and set the frequency of “as-it-happens” to them (that is, it comes to me gmail alert when Google finds something in any source by a given key). What was my surprise when on the second day I found alerts from Google.Alerts for one of the keys in the Spam folder of the email!
So, they accepted themselves as spammers. Amazing :) So, if anyone uses Alerts, sometimes check the “spam” folder, maybe something interesting has accumulated there.