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Google Alerts

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Owner
  
Google (Alphabet)

Current status
  
Active

Website
  
www.google.com/alerts

Type of site
  
Change detection and notification

Registration
  
Optional, E-mail address necessary

Launched
  
August 6, 2003; 13 years ago (2003-08-06)

Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service, offered by the search engine company Google. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results—such as web pages, newspaper articles, blogs, or scientific research—that match the user's search term(s). In 2003, Google launched Google alerts which were the result of Naga Kataru's efforts. His name is on the three patents for Google Alerts.

Google reported the system was not functioning properly as of 2013: "we’re having some issues with Alerts not being as comprehensive as we’d like".

References

Google Alerts Wikipedia