A substitute for Google Alerts / Circumventing Google restrictions on spam suppression

["James H. Moore" <jhmiso () RIT EDU>]

I have used Google alerts for years to keep an eye on our domain, to spot forums/forms that may be used to spam out 
scams.  I also used it for detecting other forms of back linking (e.g. Canadian Pharmacy stuff).

But Google now limits using their search engine for picking things like this up, they do some throttling efforts in 
limiting the number of searches.

Google alerts, that used to keep me informed when new "super viagra" ads popped up in comment fields, is not nearly so 
useful now.  Only occasionally get notices.

What are people doing?  Private spiders?  Commercial spiders?  Creative Google API programing?


Jim
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