The site: operator is a great part of Google Alerts. It lets you restrict your search term to a single URL:
“steve jobs” health site:nytimes.com
Unfortunately, you can only use site: once per alert. The OR operator usually allows you to combine multiple terms in a single query, but if you use it with site:, only the first URL is searched. Google doesn’t warn you about this. This search will still only create alerts for nytimes.com:
“steve jobs” health (site:nytimes.com OR site:wsj.com)
If you want to use site: with multiple URLs, you have to create separate alerts for each one:
“steve jobs” health site:nytimes.com
“steve jobs” health site:wsj.com
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