Google Alerts Bug: Multiple locations aren’t allowed for news alerts

by Adam Green on March 2, 2009

in Bugs, Google Alerts, News

The Google documentation doesn’t say anything about this, but from my tests multiple uses of location: in a single search doesn’t seem to work. The standard Google syntax would imply that you can search for location:ny OR location:ca, but when this is tested with Google News, it only returns results from the state of New York. In each test I’ve done, only the first location: seems to be used. Another way of seeing that multiple locations are ignored is that the total count of possible results is the same for a single location or multiple locations.

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