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URL-minder

URL-minder is an agent or robot program (bot) that notifies you when a particular Web page has changed. At a URL-minder site, you specify the Uniform Resource Locator (Uniform Resource Locator) for the Web page and the URL-minder periodically checks the page, notices whether it has been updated, and then sends you an e-mail message when it has.

Related glossary terms: mail server (mail transfer/transport agent, MTA, mail router, Internet mailer), Semantic Web, bot (robot), Web site, link checker, XIPC, Service Integration Maturity Model (SIMM)

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