Google Web Searches- Amazing what they do!

I chose the subject of Mosaics as I am preparing a chair for outside to mosaic in concrete and tiles during the Christmas holiday period. I was fascinated by the different ways I could search in the different search engines, using the related terms and different formats of videos,books,news,forums etc. All the search engines had similar extensions available to be used, which I reckon speeds up and can expand the array of information one views. This is great. I could play here all day, if time allowed.
Guided by these wonderful easy to follow instructions on the "getwithit' programme I found it easy to search the different sites. Thanks for the guidelines.By doing these exercises, it has certainly made me more aware of the different options available within these search engines.
I dont have a favourite site as they all appear pretty useful, however I did like the layout of "bing" and the ability to hold the mouse over the listed result to geet a preview of the information.I find having a navigation bar on the sites very useful.

Google Alerts -

I thought it was great to be able to set up a google alert to a site that did not have RSS feed facility. I set up a number of google alerts: Raglan, google guides, children's reading,new zealand gardening, new new zealand children's books. Its great to be able to delete or edit any part of the alert at any stage. I went back into my gmail a/c and recieved my first google alert. One for Raglan,children's reading and Google guides.So if it happens that quick then I need to monitor or possibly limit the alert frequency. A simple case of editing the google alert.Oh so easy.But then again if my emails fill up too quickly then i will delete my alert selection.

Quite a good idea but I think I would need to be reminded to go into my email to check for these if I didnt log into my email daily and have my email inbox on hand to check these.i reckon they would be great if you were folowing the developments on a particular subject and they were spoon feed to you. I suppose its like subcribing to the listserv or the daily librarylink feed.
I think this service would be useful to patrons to monitor new books by their favourite authors, events in the libraries etc