What can the product count alert service be used for?

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This is useful for Yahoo stores to monitor their product count in Google Base. A store could set up an alert to notify when the product count of their store goes below a certain number.

Another use is to notify when a search for a particular product name returns more than zero results. This can be used to monitor competition in the search results for that product.