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Site-Specific Google Alerts Widget #526

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Hello!  Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I wondered if 
there was someone out there to create a widget for websites/blogs that would 
help someone create a site-specific Google Alert for certain queries.

For instance, I have a client with a website that reviews local plays in our 
area (using Wordpress CMS).  It would be great to have a widget that would 
allow a visitor to submit a search query (perhaps an actor's name or theater's 
name) into a form that would wizard-ize a Google Alert for them so that they 
may be updated via email each time that query term appears in upcoming blog 
posts.  Sounds reasonably easy but I'm no programmer and I know it's important 
for the query itself to be formed like:  "John Doe" site:mywebsite.com -- and 
ultimately I'd like for the "site:mywebsite.com" portion be added via a hidden 
field so the user doesn't have to worry about it.

I've attached a mockup of what, ideally, I'd like to see.  Though, some 
additional dropdown menus might be necessary to choose the variables of the 
Alert --  (although the source should be hidden too since this would be a 
widget for blogs)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by auxzea...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2010 at 8:22

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