How does The Canadian Press’s Internet news monitoring service compare to Google’s free alerts?
More comprehensive • Google only sends articles containing your keywords that appear in the top ten results of your search, while our Internet news monitoring service emails all articles matching your criteria. • Unlike Google Alerts, we provide audience data that helps you measure your media coverage. • Unlike Google Alerts, we can monitor “consumer chatter” on online message boards, discussion groups, news groups and forums. Fewer missed clips • Our service consistently monitors all possible pages of 25,000 news sites and 25 million blogs at least once a day, whereas Google may only scan some pages of a website and may not check the website every day. • We can also add or exclude specific websites based on your needs, but Google does not accept requests to crawl specific sites more frequently or crawl certain pages. Higher relevancy • While Google Alerts require you to create the search with basic AND/OR/NOT options, our Internet news monitoring service saves you the time and hassle
