I just stumbled across www.google.com/alerts . This is a very cool service that will send you an email notification when new pages are indexed by Google that contain your specified terms.
There are a lot of potential ways for webmasters to use this. A couple of the search terms that I have set up as alerts are:
site:mysite.com
To alert me when new pages of my site are indexed.
mysite.com -site:mysite.com
To alert me when other sites mention or link to my site.
Be sure you remember to set the type to "Web" when creating your alerts. Have fun!
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