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E-mail alerts are saved on topic searches from Google News, Google Groups or the Google Web Search on topics that are chosen. When these searches get a relevant updates, the alert is sent to e-mail account as a way to let the subscriber know that an information has been posted on the selected topic. Google sends information and news related to your interested topic directly to the e-mail after signing up on Google E-mail alerts. There are four types of Google E-mail Alerts:

• News: You will receive an alert every time the selected topic makes it on the top ten news articles through the saved Google News search.
• Web: An alert is sent when the top 20 search results for your Web topic search change.
• News and Web: This is the combination of News and Web alerts.
• Groups: If you subscribe to a Google group, you can add an alert and get an e-mail whenever there is a new post made to that group.

Furthermore, one can choose how often they Google to send alert:

• Once a day: Google sends an e-mail once a day when the topic triggers an alert.

• As-it-happens: Each time Google sends the alert immediately when the topic triggers the alert.

• Once a week: A weekly e-mail from Google is sent out with all the alerts that have happened throughout the week.