After Google now Microsoft joins Online News Alerts Band

Google has made much of its appearance felt on the web by offering news alerts in diverse topics for years now. Realizing the importance of news round the world Microsoft has stepped itself in Online News Alerts too  . According to Microsoft Live Search blog:

Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox every day, twice a day, or just once a week. You can get top headlines, headlines for a specific area like business or world news, or the latest stories related to a search you define. You can set up as many different alerts as you want and send them to any email address associated with a Live ID. I’m currently keeping track of Obama’s appointments to key positions, what’s going on in my neighborhood, and of course what the media has to say about Live Search.

To create your alerts, simply:

1. Go to news.live.com.

2. Sign in with your Live ID (or get one if you haven’t already).

3. From any page within news search (like the default page for top stories or the results page associated with a search), click the News alerts link (in the right column).

4. Click Create alert.

So the 3rd Web giant after Google, Yahoo has joined news alerts. Welcome Microsoft.

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Tags: Microsoft, News Alerts, Online