Well, no sense in rehashing what Amit’s already done a great job over. If you’re not watching the web as closely as you’d like, there are tools like Zaptxt, that outgoing TechCruncher Marshall Kirkpatrick mentioned yesterday, but its also important not forget good ol’ Google Alerts. It scans the interwebs for all kinds of news based on the keywords you leave behind — and now also scans the blogosphere. What I didn’t realize is that, of course, you can use the same tricks on your google search as you can with Google Alerts.

Amit over at Digital Inspirations goes through the gory details, but you can, for example, set up alerts so that you track news in a certain place. Interested in team Rocketboom, but only in New York? Try this query: rocketboom OR “andrew baron” OR “joanne colan” location:ny … yes, Google allows you to narrow searches using US States’ two letter codes.

Nifty!

If you’d like the details head over to Digital Inspirations for that any much more Google and other productivity related goodness.