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To start with an understatement, most people are aware of Google as a search engine. Type “agentive” into its search bar and see the results of web pages, news items, and images on the web now. (And if you’re wondering, at the time of publication, this results in very little, since I’m at the beginning of my quest to rescue the word from obscurity.) But at www.google.com/alerts, you can set up a persistent search where an agent will email you when anything new matching your search terms is published in its news, blog, and web feeds.

Using this, you can set up alerts for almost anything of interest. If it can be found with a basic text Google search, it can be turned into an Alert.

Google even has examples of well-formed Alert searches of possible interest. That gives users an easy opt-in for likely interests, but also shows them examples from which they can learn to construct new ones (even if most are blatant marketing).

Using these tools, you tell the agent what you’re interested in, and it helps you stay on top of it. But interests aren’t just limited to mentions. It can be when favorite recording artists publish new works.