Set up a Google alert on your name so you are notified when you are mentioned.

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You should even set up a Google Alert for your name.

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Set a Google alert on your name so that mentions of your name get emailed to you regularly and you stay vigilant about your online brand.

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Google used a similar technique last year to successfully alert a million users infected with a different kind of malware.

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Given the sharp rally in Google, traders and active investors should be on the alert for potential profit-taking over the next few days, as traders who were savvy enough to buy the stock as it pulled back in bull market territory exit their positions.

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Re-gift alert: Since this occurs on the Android as well, Google may want to look out for a belated class action present.

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Those vulnerable sites included domains owned by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Symantec, all of which the researchers contacted to alert the companies to the new Web bug.

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The Web admin can decide to send a text message back to the sender to verify the information, send out a blast alert to large numbers of people or post the information onto a Web page with location information from Google Maps (or do all three).

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