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Answer engines look for sources where the question has already been asked, and on a precise subject that is usually a forum. Google's AI overviews do the same, and the sources they name turn up in the ordinary results too. Being quoted there means appearing in the answer itself, not only in a list of links.
of Google's generated answers cited at least one forum, across twenty French questions tested.
on precise questions alone — the ones the commercial web never wrote about.
forums found by our own crawler, 6enligne.net and forum-mercedes.com, are cited by Google today.
Being on the right thread at the right moment means becoming the source the AI copies. The link is only a side effect.
Measured in August 2026 on twenty French long-tail questions.
Forums no directory lists. We find them by their technical fingerprint, a viewtopic.php or a “powered by phpBB”, rather than from a ready-made list: that is what reaches a forum with twelve members.
Speed is what counts. While the thread is still open, your reply shapes what the next readers take away. Three weeks later the verdict is in, and the thread has become a Google result you no longer control.
AI engines lean on forums as sources, above all on niche and long-tail questions. Talking about your subject on a specialist forum is how you get a chance to be the source they copy.
Forum links remain a natural way to earn coverage. The work is finding the place and the moment: an open discussion, on your subject, where a useful answer belongs. That is what the alert hands you, and the link follows.
We watch over 7,000 forums and media outlets. 3,466 already have a public profile, by theme and by country, with their latest discussions live. Free, no account. Browse the directory →
Google Alerts follows what Google has indexed, days late and with very partial coverage of forums — many threads never make it into the index.
We read the forums' own public feeds, every four hours. No index in between: what the forum publishes, we see.
About an hour in the median. Each forum's main feed is re-read every four hours and the email leaves seconds after collection, so a post made during the day usually reaches you within the hour. Overnight it takes longer: the collector runs from 6am to midnight.
No. We read the RSS and JSON feeds forums publish to be read by machines, we respect their robots.txt, and we never open two simultaneous requests to the same site. A forum sees two to seven visits a day from us.
We copy neither pages nor messages: only a title, a link back to the source, and the beginning of the message.
A word only counts when it appears whole. “gas” therefore triggers nothing on “magazine”.
Several words must follow one another. “internet box” will not surface a discussion mentioning “box” in one sentence and “internet” in another.
You can also rule words out, restrict to a country or a language, and any term passing fifty results is flagged as too broad rather than dumped in your inbox.
Because they are often the best ones. A question about an electricity contract asked on a Prius forum is watched by nobody — and that is exactly where an answer counts.
So we never filter on the forum's theme, only on what the discussion says.
It is possible, and we will say so. Consumer energy, for instance, has almost no communities of its own, yet it comes up constantly among DIYers and electricians. The useful question is not “where are my sector's forums” but “where is my subject discussed without being the host's topic”.
We also watch media outlets that let readers comment on their articles: a piece published today about your market is a place to write, just like a discussion.
A broader keyword often opens an audience you were not expecting. And if your market is missing, write to us: we add the forums people point us to.