Asking readers for some help

By Paul Murphy | December 1, 2010, 8:18am PST

I’m trying to figure out how long it takes from the time some text hits the web to the time people with specific search term alerts triggered by it are notified.

To that end, would you please use the alerting software and search engine or other tool of your choice to alert you if the exact text:

There’s something not right about the story behind the wikileaks documents.

appears in a web document. Right now google shows no hits on the quoted text. Tomorrow this request should, of ocurse, show up but the test will start when my blog for December 4th is released to zdnet at 12:15 AM PST this Saturday.

If you can help please email me or add the following in a comment on that blog entry:

  • which tool or tools you used;
  • what time your notification arrived; and,
  • whether you are in the United States or elsewhere.

I’d also like to know if you set an alert and get no notification on the Saturday.

Thanks - and I’ll explain why I’m asking in a subsequent post.