Google Alerts vs Heritrix
A side-by-side look at Google Alerts and Heritrix. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Google Alerts
Online Services
Google Alerts is a free service from Google that sends emails notifying users when new web content matching their search terms is indexed. Users can set up alerts around topics, companies, people, etc. to monitor new mentions and updates across the web.
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Heritrix
Development
Heritrix is an open-source, extensible, web-scale, archival-quality web crawler project built on the Apache stack. It is designed for archiving periodic captures of content from the web and large intranets.
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