---
type: Article
title: Google bares one at me!
description: I use Google Alerts quite a bit, a most excellent tool, but today I had reason to change one of them from 'as it happens' to 'daily report' - I was getting too many alerts on one particular subject.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2004-10-06-google-bares-one-at-me/
tags: [Shorticles, Humour]
timestamp: 2004-10-06
---



I use [Google Alerts](https://web.archive.org/web/20091126172829/http://www.google.com/alerts "get sent an e-mail when a keyword is found in eth news or on the web") quite a bit, a most excellent tool, but today I had reason to change one of them from 'as it happens' to 'daily report' - I was getting too many alerts on one particular subject. I tried to log in unsucessfully to make the change and was presented with a common security feature where you have to retype a set of letters displayed in a graphic. What I was not expecting was the word it showed me!

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