How to create SearchAlert Programmatically?

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Note: Make sure that you have enabled search based alerts SSP-> Search Settings -> Search Based Alerts

    1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite("https://nishand:300/sites/PubSite/Search/");

    2: SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb();

    3: Query alertQuery = new KeywordQuery(spSite);

    4: alertQuery.QueryText = "Hello" // Keyword

    5: SearchAlert searchAlert = new SearchAlert(spSite, alertQuery); 

    6: searchAlert.InnerAlert.AlertFrequency = SPAlertFrequency.Daily; 

    7: searchAlert.InnerAlert.Title = "Alert#2"

    8: searchAlert.InnerAlert.User = web.Users["domain\\user"]; 

    9: searchAlert.Update();

How to check whether an alert named 'Alert#2' has been created?

  Go to Site Actions -> Site Settings - User Alerts -> Select 'user name' and click on 'update' button.