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Google Alerts Tutorial: Google News Alerts Tricks

Creating News Alerts

Google News Alerts are created the same way you would any other alert. The only difference is that you need to select News as the alert type. This will make sure you only get search results from the Google News section of Google.

Google News Alerts can be created with all the multiple keyword tricks and special search syntax covered in earlier pages of this tutorial.

Press release alerts

Press releases are a great source of B2B sales leads for a specific industry. You can limit Google News Alerts to just press releases about an industry by creating the alert with a keyword for that industry along with the site: operator to monitor the PRWeb.com site:
software site:prweb.com

You can also limit your Google News Alerts to just US government press releases by using either site:gov in your search for government sites, or site:mil for US military sites:
software site:gov
software site:mil

College newspaper alerts

The idea of using the site: operator can also be applied to news alerts from college newspapers with site:edu in your search:
software site:edu

News alerts from specific sources

The source: operator is available only for Google News search and Google News Alerts. You can use it with the name of a newspaper, TV station or radio station. The only trick is to put underscores in the name to replace spaces, so the New York Times is entered as source:new_york_times:
software source:new_york_times

News alerts from specific locations

Location: is another operator that only works with Google News search and Google News Alerts. You can use the name of a city, US state, or country. For multi-word city and country names, you must use underscores in place of spaces. You can also use state abbreviations and Internet country codes:
software location:london
software location:ma
software location:india

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