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. Sometimes the location search lets you search for media sources in a
single city. See if it's possible to work that into your search.
. Don't forget to take advantage of Yahoo News' wonderful RSS feeds.
Google news
For a long time Google News (news.google.com) was my favorite news
search engine. And while other competitors have entered the scene, it still
has a lot to ofer, with over 4,500 sources and both e-mail alerts and RSS
feeds available.
Building your queries
Google News has an excellent advanced search available at news.google.
com/advanced_news_search. Here you can narrow your search by location
(sources available in a particular country, or state in the United States). You
also can narrow your query word search to the headline of the story (great
if you've got a keyword that just can't be narrowed down).
hint
google news, as you've seen, has some great options for 
advanced searching. Take advantage of them. The title search is 
immeasurably useful when you're having trouble narrowing down 
your query. in addition, i ind the ability to narrow my search to 
sources in a particular state or country also useful. Later in the 
chapter we're going to look at monitoring the news and issues of 
a country. google news' location syntax (as well as Yahoo news' 
advanced search) is a big part of that. 
Trapping
Google News ofers e-mail updates via its Google Alerts product, as well
as RSS and Atom feeds. At the end of every results page, check out the let
side of the page. here, under the page navigation, are text links to RSS and
Atom versions of your search.
Possibilities
Google claims to have 4,500 news sources in its index, and has claimed this
for years. My guess would be that it uses a lot more. Try some of your more
obscure queries on the wide range of content indexed here.
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