GMail Thinks My Google Alerts Are Spam

I didn't notice when I stopped receiving my Google Alerts. It's one of those things you pass over until one day you're all "why didn't I get something on this?" I assumed my subscription had run out and I'd have to set them up again – which I found to be very annoying.

But today, I found out that GMail thinks Google Alerts are spam.

To the service's credit, GMail has also identified 1000 other spam messages in the past five days – quite the up-tick, actually, and has promptly removed them to my spam folder.

I didn't go to my spam folder looking for my Google Alerts. I went there looking for an evaluation from one of my graduate school mentors (
If I hadn't have checked there, I might not have known Meredith Smith's