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The first step is to visit the Google News Alerts home page. Once there, enter
a topic you're interested in, the frequency with which you'd like to receive
your News Alerts and your email address. We'll send you a confirmation email
to you that contains a link back to our service. To activate your News Alert,
you MUST click on the link or copy and paste the URL into your browser. Once
you've confirmed your request by doing this, we'll begin checking for news to
send to you.
Every Google News Alert contains instructions on how to stop receiving emails.
Simply click on the link you'll find at the bottom of your news alert email
and you'll be unsubscribed from that specific News Alert.
Once you've created a Google News Alert, you can't edit it. However, it's very
easy to delete the old News Alert and then create a new one with the settings
you want.
Yes, News Alerts can be sent to any working email address. However, you'll have
to recreate your topic settings because there's not currently a way to switch
the email address to which your News Alerts are being sent.
The advanced search
page on Google News provides a number of ways to fine tune a search to eliminate
unwanted results. You can incorporate these techniques in your Google news alert
settings by selecting the conditions you want on the Google News advanced search
page, then clicking the "Google Search" button. When the results page appears,
copy the text that appears in the search box on that page and paste it into
the box on the Google News Alerts home page labeled "News search."
There's currently a limit of 10 unverified News Alerts. If you've reached your
limit, check your email and verify your pending News Alerts by clicking on the
verification link.
Google News Alerts does its best, but with a very high-volume news topic it
is sometimes possible that the occasional story will not be sent out via email.
The frequency of your News Alerts depends on two factors; how often we check
for new stories and how often we find new stories. When signing up, you have
the option of receiving email alerts either once a day or as news happens. With
the "once a day" option, we'll check for new stories once a day, meaning you'll
get at maximum of one email per day. If you select to receive News Alerts "as
it happens," we'll check for news continuously throughout the day. If the topic
is one that's the subject of a lot of news coverage, you could get several News
Alerts in a given day.
Anything that's interesting to you is a good subject for a News Alert. Many
News Alerts are set up by people who are:
No. We have a low opinion of unsolicited email and will not sell you out to
those who send it. Or anyone else for that matter. We encourage you to read
our privacy policy, but if you want the quick
answer, your email address does not get shared, traded, sold, delivered, revealed,
publicized or marketed in any way shape or form. We value your privacy as much
as our own.
Please feel free to send feedback to alerts-feedback@google.com.