Google Alerts are pretty nifty. I started using them fairly recently and can't believe I hadn't tried it sooner.
Google Alerts allow you to set up an alert that automatically notifies you via email if a news article, blog, site...whatever, releases or updates with a term or phrase you are interested in knowing about. So for example, say you want to find a discount on iphones or there is a certain flat-screen tv you are looking for a sale on. Google Alerts lets you just go about your business and let those updates come to you.
All you have to do is visit www.google.com/alerts and enter the terms, type (choose Comprehensive), how often and your email address.
IMPORTANT: Some of the time you won't know what exact phrase to type in (because you may not now how everyone would term sale, discount, coupon, deal etc) so you can create multiple alerts for variations of that phrase. Also, and this is very important, put quotes around your phrase, such as "iphone sale" to get those words together. Otherwise you can get anything related to either term.
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