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Google Alerts trick: Finding comments on Google News stories

by Adam Green on March 4, 2009

in Google Alerts, News, Tricks

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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Google Alerts Trick: News alerts for a single source

by Adam Green on March 3, 2009

in Google Alerts, News, Tricks

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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