A good investigator is always watching. That means following social media profiles and online communities, monitoring webpages and keywords, tracking assets like ships and airplanes, and searching for new records and documents.
This guide covers 12 free tools for tracking changes to webpages — in some cases entire websites — and for monitoring the web for keywords and search queries. Some are longtime stalwarts like Google Alerts and Visualping; others are lesser-known or open-source options worth adding to your toolkit. One, Scoutpost, is a product we'll offer in the soon-to-launch Indicator Lab package; I explain that connection below.
Here’s a look at how to automate some key monitoring tasks, and a comparison chart to help you pick the right tool.
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