Why would Google Alerts send me an alert about a year-old post on my own blog that I deleted weeks ago? Weird.

Google Alerts is a good way to find out which spam sites are stealing my content, but it’s not like I can do anything about it once I find them. I’ve been using Google Alerts on my own name and the name of my blog for a long time-long enough to know nobody in the world is talking about me.

Do you use Google Alerts, and if so, for what purpose?