Adding Google Alerts to SharePoint

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Google gives its users a wide variety of utilities to use either for work or for entertainment or even business. One of these utilities is Google Alerts. This service allows the users to get an updated content from Google about a certain topic on the web. Google does the search and sends the result to the mail or to a feed. Having the feed option in Google Alerts gives the SharePoint developer to easily display the search result in a SharePoint page. Let us see how to do this.


Please follow the following easy steps:

-          Open an internet browser and navigate to http://alerts.google.com and login with your Google account.
-          Now you can add a new alert on Google as the following image shows


-          Here you should select [Feed] from in the [Deliver To] menu and click on [Create Alert].
-          The alert will appear as bellow.



-          Click on the RSS logo. A new page opens. Copy the URL in the address bar.



-          Now, open your web part page in the SharePoint web site. And click site actions > Edit Page.



-          Click on add web part in the web part zone.



-          In the select dialog, scroll down to RSS Viewer web part



-          Click on edit > Modify Shared Web Part.



-          In the RSS Feed URL past the URL taken earlier and enter the number of how many feeds you need to display in the feed limit.



-          Click ok. The feed will be available for display on your page.



-          You may notice that there are some tags in the feed title. This can be resolved from the XSL style of the web part.
Quraim

Comments

  1. DeirdreMay 31, 2013 at 8:49 AM

    I like your explanation. It worked well for me. However, can you explain how to get rid of the tags in the title using the XSL?

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  2. Sjoerd JanssenApril 29, 2014 at 4:54 PM

    Dear Quraim, I have same question as Deirdre. How to resolve with XSL the tags?

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