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Google Alerts Trick

Google News publishes comments from experts on some of its news stories, and you can request alerts for these comments by using the special source of google_news:
source:google_news

You can also combine this with keywords to see expert comments on specific subjects:
obama source:google_news

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News alerts can be limited with the source: operator, which lets you name the news provider. You can create an alert with a source: by itself to see all news from that provider:
source:ha’aretz

Or you can include keywords with the source. Multiple words in the source’s title must be separated with an underscore (_).:
theater source:new_york_times

Just as with location:, using multiple copies of source: separated with OR is ignored, and only the first source: is used.

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Google Alerts Trick: News alerts for cities

March 2, 2009

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 [...]

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