Search query saving tips, by Gwen Harris:
“Saving a search query for resubmission later is standard practice among users of for-fee information services. With some tweaking, this can also be done on the open Web. Saved searches can be used to watch for pertinent news stories on the major news search engines — Google, Alltheweb and Altavista — and for mention of topics at a Web site through any search engine. But, while there are several tools available, no one tool does the entire job.”