OOPS

OOPS
: I am away from my pc but I see in my comments I got taken in by the fake Google alerts pitch. I sit corrected.

: Now I’m at a desk and a landline. Thanks to the commenters for setting me straight (though certain of you you needn’t drip with such attitude, you know).

If I were Google, I’d sue these guys forthwith. They certainly fooled me into thinking they were a Google service and, as I said below, it sucks. It reflects badly on the Google brand.

And, yes, if this were a newspaper you were holding, you’d have to wait 24 hours to get a correction. Here, the readers corrected things immediately and I corrected from the road on my Treo.