The phrase "alert you about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when notifying someone about a specific issue, event, or information that requires their attention.
Example: "I wanted to alert you about the upcoming deadline for the project submission."
Alternatives: "notify you regarding" or "inform you about".
These would be search queries you want Google to alert you about and you want to track.
Your computer or PDA can alert you about something each month, week, or year.
But I cAndt help but thitk that it could quickly become a must-have for those who spend more time on their bike than in their car, like our own Andrew Sweeney.
Apps could start by telling you who's nearby, then slowly grow, until they could alert you about all sorts of things, and do so just as spontaneously.
Co-founder and CEO Patrick Ambron compares the feature to the way LinkedIn and other social sites can alert you about other members who have viewed your profile, "except applied to the entire web".
For other photos, you'll only get notified if you're in the audience for that photo so as to protect the uploader's privacy and not alert you about photos you're not allowed to see.
To some extent, ETA competes with Google Now, which proactively alerts you about travel times, traffic, and distances to your next destination.
The company recently began testing a new "TV Trending" box at the top of the timeline, as well as a feature which alerts you about live events that are happening nearby.
If WorldMate alerts you about a flight delay, there is a new share button that allows you to pass on the information, for example, to someone who is picking you up or waiting for your arrival.
For lots of millennials in the UK, Facebook is the online space which reminds you about people's birthdays, alerts you about stuff you might want to go to, and functions as a place for you to talk and post about the major events in your life (obviously there are also still the lads who join Simpsons meme pages and enjoy having rows about politics underneath VICE articles).
"Your browser will alert you if there's anything about a site's privacy policy that doesn't match your preferences," she says.
