News•
Google Alerts API: It Doesn't Exist, So Build This Instead
There is no Google Alerts API and never has been. Here's why free alerting lags breaking news, plus a full build-your-own alerts pipeline in Python.
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131 articles by Ricardo Batista
Brand Monitoring•
Content Theft: How to Find Who's Copying Your Work
We ran the exact-phrase pipeline on 18 of cloro's own articles: 27.8% had a detected non-cloro copy, a copy outranked the original 22.2% of the time, and 39 distinct republisher domains showed up. Here's the build recipe, plus how to get copies taken down.
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AI Search•
cloro OpenClaw Integration: Monitor AI Search
The cloro OpenClaw plugin adds seven AI search monitoring tools to your agent — check how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answer any prompt. Also connects over MCP.
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SERP API•
SERP API Reliability at Scale: Uptime, Latency, Concurrency
SERP API reliability at 10k+ daily requests — uptime SLAs, latency under load, and concurrency across cloro, SerpAPI, DataForSEO, and Bright Data.
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Brand Monitoring•
Typosquatting: How to Detect Lookalike Domains
Most typosquat coverage stops at registration counts. In cloro's July 2026 study of 400 dnstwist-style permutations across 15 brands, 66% resolved to a live site, and of the resolving squats we checked, 53% were already Google-indexed. Registration isn't reach. Indexing is.
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News•
Google News RSS Feed: How It Works and Its Limits
The definitive reference for Google News RSS feeds: search and topic URL anatomy, geo/language params, the documented limits, and measured reliability data.
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News•
Google News API: What Exists in 2026 and What to Use Instead
There is no official Google News API. Google retired it in 2011 and never replaced it. This guide maps what you can actually pull in 2026 (RSS, unofficial libraries, Custom Search, a scraping API), with an original freshness study and a Python tutorial.
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OSINT•
Attack Surface Management: The Search-Indexed Layer
In an own-scope study of cloro.dev, Certificate Transparency surfaced 15 hostnames but only 3 were search-indexed. A defensive site: sweep found ~20 exposed URL paths host enumeration never sees. The two layers are complementary, not redundant.
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Google•
Google "Verifying Your Request": What It Means, How to Fix
Google's 'Verifying your request' page comes back as HTTP 200 with no search results, so scrapers log it as a success. What sets it off and how to get through it.
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