When creating an alert for a specific city, you should test the query first with a Google search. The location: operator doesn’t allow you to include a state or country along with the city name. This means that Google has to make an assumption about which version of that city you mean. For example, location:boston find news stories in Boston, Massachusetts, but location:cambridge finds news from Cambridge, England. As a resident of Lexington, Mass., I find it disturbing that Google thinks that location:lexington means Lexington, Kentucky.
When you want to use a city name with multiple words, you must separate the words with an underscore (_), and don’t assume that common city abbreviations will work. Location:la gives you news for Louisiana, so you must use location:los_angeles if you want news from that city.
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