advanced news search with Google

    NEWS SEARCH WITH ONE KEYWORD

Search with one descriptif keyword in the approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide, scanned by Googlebot (Google's web-crawling robot).

Choose your keyword wisely, as specific as possible. Try the obvious first. Example: if you are looking for news from the international catholic relief organization "Caritas", enter "caritas" rather than "relief".

Google searches in general are not case sensitive: all letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case, for example, searches for "richard nixon", "Richard Nixon", "Richard nixon" and "rIcHaRd NiXoN" will all return the same query result!!

Don't forget that Google's search engine ignores some common words (stopwords), such as "I", "a", "the", "and", "of"... and characters, as well as certain single digits and single letters.

To provide the most accurate results, Google does not support so-called "stemming, the ability to use an asterisk "wildcard" in the place of letters within a keyword. In other words, Google searches news for exactly the keyword(s) that you enter in the search box. Scanning for "airline" or "airline*" will not yield "airlines", for instance. If in doubt, try both words: "airline" and "airlines" (see next paragraph).


  fill in with your own keyword :

   Example : caritas

    NEWS SEARCH WITH TWO OR MORE KEYWORDS

The majority of the queries with search engines on the web are based on one keyword. In general, they produce too much results. Refine your search further, simply adding more keywords to the term(s) you have already entered. Your new query will return a smaller but more relevant list of web pages than Google found for the original "too-broad" query. 50 well targeted news pages are much more inviting to explore than 200.000!! !

By default, Google uses an automatic (boolean) "AND" query. Special search syntax punctuations like "AND" or the "+" sign - between the keywords are not necessary. Just separate the keywords by a space.

Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms.

The order in which you the keywords are typed in a Google query will affect the search results! Rearranging a query can change not only your overall result count butr also what results rise to the top. Try the more obvious permutation before the "nonsensical".

Repition matters! Using the same keyword two or multiple times can have an impact on the order, the types and the number of results you get.

Remark: Google does not accept more than 10 query words, special syntax words (OR, AND, SITE, SOURCE, INTITLE, INURL, INTEXT, INANCHOR, etc.) included.


  fill in with your own keywords :

   Example : iraq christians

    "OR" NEWS SEARCH

Google supports the (boolean) "OR" operator. To retrieve pages that include either keyword1 or keyword2 or keyword3 etc., use an OR (in capital letters!) between the search terms.

For example, to search for "christians" in either Lebanon, or in the capital city Beirut, just type: "christians lebanon OR beirut OR "south lebanon".


  fill in with your own keywords or phrases :

   Example : christians beirut OR lebanon OR "south lebanon"

    PHRASE NEWS SEARCH

Two or more keywords surrounded by double quotes ("like this") will appear together in all results exactly as you have entered them. Common words in a phrase search (e.g., "where are you") are included in this query.

Complete phrase searches are especially useful when searching for famous sayings or proper names.

To restrict this phrase search further, just ad more keywords inside or beside the phrase. Again, use a space between all the keywords and phrases.

It can surprisingly be effective to try phrases with and without quotes.

Good keyword for a news query are "news", "top news", "headlines", "current events" combined with one or more keyword. For example: news belgium, "top news" iraq, "current events" burundi, and so on.

Important: Google offers the full-word wildcard (Google's wildcard character is *). One * is a stand-in for one full word, two * are a substitute for two words, and so on. This full-word wildcard comes in handy to avoid the max. 10 keywords limits, to find quotes, song lyrics, to check names, persons, objects, places and areas in the news... For example a search for the title of Stanley Kubrick's last movie "Eyes wide Shut" should give almost the same relevant results with the following phrase query "eyes * shut". Try it!


  fill in with your own keywords :

   Example : "caritas relief services"

    PARENTHESES - NESTING NEWS SEARCH

If you want to definitely have one keyword and have one of two or more other terms, you group them with parentheses, like this: curia (cardinal OR cardinals). This means that you want results about the Roman Curia in the Vatican, but are uncertain whether you want cardinal or cardinals.

  fill in with your own keyword(s) and (nested) phrase(s) :

   Example : (cardinal or cardinals) vatican curia

    "+" NEWS SEARCH : THE +KEYWORD(S) MUST BE SCANNED

If a specific keyword (even a common word or stopword, character, single digit or single letter) is essential to getting the results you want, you can force Google to take it in account, just by putting a "+" sign in front of it. Include no space between "+" and the keyword, but be sure to include a space before the "+" sign.

Another method for doing this is conducting the phrase search (see above) by putting quotation marks around 2 or more words.


  fill in with your own keywords :

   Example : world war +II

    "-" NEWS SEARCH : TO EXCLUDE SPECIFIC WORD(S) OR/AND PHRASE(S)

Sometimes what you're searching for has more than one meaning. The word "cardinal" can refer to a member of the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals, but also to an American sport team and to a bird species You can exclude one or more words from your search by putting a minus sign ("-") immediately in front of the term you want to avoid. (Be sure to include a space before the minus sign.)

To find web pages about "cardinal", ad "-keywords" that do not contain some words like "sport", "bird", etc. type:
cardinals -bird -sport -sports -team -stritch -run -game


  fill in with your own keywords :

   Example : cardinal -bird -sport -sports -stritch -run

    "SOURCE:" SEARCH ARTICLES IN ONE RESTRICTED NEWS SOURCE

If you don't know the URL from a news site you want and you're in a hurry, you can start the very useful [source:] query. For example, you might not know the full URL(=domain address on the web) for the Russian newspaper "Pravda", so being able to use "source:pravda" is handy.

What happens if you want to search for a news source that has multiple words? You separate the words with underscore "_". Thus "Washington Post" becomes: source:washington_post.

Remember that Google news does NOT publish the complete list of its newssources (about 4500!).


  fill in with your own keyword(s) and news source name :

   Example : pope source:washington_post

    "ALLINTITLE:" NEWS SEARCH IN THE HEADLINE OF THE ARTICLES ONLY

If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google finds pages wherein all the keywords specified make up the title of the web page. For instance, a query with two keywords [allintitle: keyword1 keyword2] will return only web pages that have both "keyword1" and "keyword2" in the headline only.

This functionality is also available through Advanced News Search page.

Don't use [allintitle:] when you mix with other syntaxes.

 fill in with your own keywords :
    Example : allintitle:google search

    "ALLINURL:" NEWS SEARCH IN THE URL ONLY

If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the URL. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url.

Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not URL components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the url, but won't require that they be separated by a slash within that url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints.

This functionality is also available through Advanced News Search page.

 fill in with your own keyword(s) and/or phrase(s) :
   Example : allinurl:pope

    "ALLINTEXT:" NEWS SEARCH IN THE BODY OF THE ARTICLE

[allintext:] searches only body text (i.e., ignores link text, URLs, and titles).

While its uses are limited, it's perfect for finding query words that might be too common in URLs or link titles.

 fill in with your own keyword(s) and/or phrase(s) :
   Example : intext:yahoo.com
    "INANCHOR:" NEWS SEARCH IN LINK ANCHORS

[inanchor:] searches for text in a page's link anchors. A link anchor is the descriptive text of a link. For example, the link anchor in the HTML code <a href="http://www.newssearchdirectory.com">News Search Directory</a> is "News Search Directory". There is also an [allintext:] variation but, again, this doesn't play well with other syntaxes.

 fill in with your own keyword(s) or phrase(s):
   Example : inanchor:"george bush"
    "CACHE:" NEWS SEARCH IN THE CACHE VERSIONS OF PAGES INDEXED BY GOOGLE

A query with the [cache:] syntax finds the copy of a page that Google indexed even if that page is no longer available at its original URL(=internet address) or has since changed its content completely. This is particulary useful for newspapers, weekly magazines, periodicals etc. that are quickly "old" and "archived".

If Google returns a result that appears to have little to do with your query, you're almost sure to find what you're looking for in the latest cached version of the page at Google.

 fill in with your own URL:
   Example : cache:www.iht.com (Int. Herald Tribune)
    "RELATED:" SEARCH SIMILAR NEWS PAGES OR NEWS DOMAINS

A query with the syntax [related:] finds news pages or news domains with similar or close contents and topics.
For example, with the syntax "related:" for "www.cnn.com" Google finds BBC, The New York Times, ABC News, FoxNews,...

  fill in with your own (sub)domain name :
Ex : related:http://www.lemonde.fr

    "~": TILDE SEARCH FOR SYNONYMS OF KEYWORD(S)
You may want to search not only for a particular word, but also for its synonyms. Indicate a search for by placing the tilde sign ("~") immediately in front of the keyword(s)

  fill in with your own keyword(s) :

   Example : ~vatican ~pope ~headlines

    "DEFINE:" SEARCH FOR DEFINITION(S)

To get a list of definitions for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define:" with no space between it, and then the term you want defined. If Google has seen one or more definitions for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results.

For example, the search define:World Wide Web will show you a list of definitions for "World Wide Web" gathered from various online sources.


  fill in with your own keyword or phrase :

    "PRINT.GOOGLE.COM:" SEARCH IN BOOKS

Not all the world's information is already on the Internet, so Google enables you to browse the contents of thousands of offline books via keywords, just like regular web pages.

To use this application, simply type in 'print.google.com' followed by your search item.

Results are clearly marked with a [BOOK - BETA] tag. Clicking on these links will take you to excerpts from related books, plus links to some popular book sellers, e.g. "Amazon", "Barnes & Noble" and "Books-A-Million", where you can purchase the printed full version. Despite the links to this retail sites, Google claims that this book seller are not paid for by those sites, nor it does not benefit if you make a purchase from one of these retailers as a result of a search.

For example, the search print.google.com will show you a list of written documents (mosly book exerpts) wherin the 'Vatican' is mentioned.


  fill in with your own keyword or phrase :

    "LINK:" LINKED PAGES

A query with the syntax [link:] returns a list of external pages (indexed by Google) linking to the specified URL(=internet address). For example, enter [link:]www.google.com and you will be returned a list of pages that link to "Google". You don't need to include the "http://" bit for the URL, because Google appears to ignore it even if you do put it in.

The [link:] syntax works just as well with a so-called "deep" URL - "http://edition.cnn.com/EUROPE/" for instance - as with the top-level URL cnn.com.

You cannot mix the [link:] syntax with another syntax in a query with Google.

  fill in with your own domain name or newspage :
  Example :link:http://www.nytimes.com

    "FILETYPE:" NEWS SEARCH IN A SPECIFIC FILE FORMAT

Search for a word inside a specific file type or page generator: pdf (Adobe PDF), xls (Excel), doc (Word), ppt (Powerpoint), etc. Type your keyword(s), followed by a space, and [filetype:]filename extension or suffix

Even the search for filetype:html and filetype:htm will give you different result counts, even though they're the same filetype.

You can even search for different page generators, such as ASP, PHP, CGI, SHTML, XML, RSS and so forth - presuming the site isn't hiding them behind redirection and proxying.

 fill in with your own keyword(s) :
    Example : moreover filetype:rss

File types indexed by Google :

Adobe Portable Document Format pdf
Adobe Postscript ps
Corel WorldPerfect wp
DBase dbf
Lotus1-2-3 wk1, wk2, wk3, wk4, wk5, wki, wks, wku
Lotus WordPro lwp
Mac Write mw
Microsoft Excel xls
Microsoft Word doc
Microsoft PowerPoint ppt
Rich Text Format (RTF) rtf
Microsoft Write wri
Text txt, ans
Works Spreadsheet wps
Works Database wdb
WorksText wks
WordStar ws

    NEWS SEARCH IN NEWSGROUPS
Google's search feature enables users to access the entire archive of Usenet discussion groups dating back to 1981. This fascinating first-hand historical account contains more than 700 million messages.
To search a particular word for all the news groups, just type that word into the search box. For example, to search for all groups whose name includes "christian", just type "christian" into the search box. This would then find articles from groups such as "alt.religion.christian" or "alt.religion.christian.roman-catholic".

To find one or more keyword in the subject field of the newsgroup messages use the [insubject:] syntax. For example, you're looking for items about "news search with Google", type this in the searchbox below: "insubject:google news search".

To read a particular (favorite) newsgroup, for example [alt.music.classical] type the name of that group into the search box or browse to it by following links from the Google Groups homepage. You should see a listing of recent threads from that group, ordered by date. Click on any thread name to see the most recent posts to that thread; you can scroll up or down to see the complete thread.

To restrict your search to all pages in a given newsgroup hierarchy, use the asterix notation "*" to denote "all pages in this hierarchy". Example: to find all pages within the "alt.religion" hierarchy, enter "alt.religion.*" (without the quotation marks!) in the search box below or on the advanced group search page.


  fill in with your own keyword(s) or newsgroup name :

 Example : vatican (in the past 3 months)
    SEARCH NEWS PHOTO(S)
Google's Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with more than 425 million images indexed and available for viewing. Enter one or more keywords in the search box below, then click on the "OK" button. On the results page, just click the thumbnail of the image you want to view to display a larger version , as well as the web page on which the original image is located.

You can use all operators for image search that you would use in a Google text search, like [site:], [intitle:], [inurl:], [allintitle:], etc. For example, you can use [site:] with image search to restrict your search to images on a particular website. So, to find news photos of Iraq at the "Yahoo!" website , the query would be "site:yahoo.com iraq". You can also refine your search using the Advanced Image Search page. Options include size ranges, coloration, filetypes, domain restriction and (only from an english interface) mature content filter .

Images identified by the Google Image Search service may be protected by copyrights. If you would like to use any images you have found (for a wedbsite...), you have to contact the site owner to obtain the requisite permissions.


  fill in with your own keyword(s) :

   Example : pope news

    "STOCKS:" FINANCIAL NEWS SEARCH

With Google's [stocks:] operator, you can get stock and mutual fund information from firms and corporations (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX). If you begin this query Google will treat the rest of terms as stock ticker symbols, and will redirect you to a page of Yahoo! Finance showing stock information for those symbols. In the top-left of the frame is the Google logo, along with links to other financial sites.

For instance, [stocks: SNE] will show information about "SONY Corporation". Note you must type the ticker symbol(s), not the company name.

This functionality is also available if you search just with one or more a stock symbols as keyword, without the [stocks:]operator. For example, query the keyword "yhoo", and then click on the "Show stock quotes" link on the results page.

Keep in mind that you cannot mix the [stocks:] syntax with other syntaxes!

  fill in with your keyword(s) or stock ticker symbol(s) :
    Example : stocks:ibm
    SEARCH NEWS IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE AND/OR FROM A CERTAIN COUNTRY

Using the language pull-down menu, you can specify what language all returned pages must be in, from Arabic to Turkisch. If you are interested only in search result from one specific country use the country pull-down menu.

Tip: combine the keywords to search for news with the keyword(s) "news", "headlines" and so on in the specific language and/or country, and with te corresponding language and country in the pull-down menus. Example: to find french news about the pope. Choose the "French" option in the language menu, and the "France" option, in the country menu. Type the keywords "pape" (French for "Pope") and "actualités" (French for "News") in the searchbox and "Go!"

Tip: If you search news only in pages from one specific country or in a specific language, you can save this as your default search behavior on the Google Preferences page.

Search pages written in:
Search pages located in:
keyword(s) and/or phrase(s) :      Example : vatican à la une

    TRANSLATE A TEXT OR A WEB PAGE

This Google tool allows you to translate either a block of text or an entire web page from one language to another. Most of the translations are to and from English.

Machine translation is not nearly as good as human translation, so don't rely on this translation as either the basis of a search or as a completely accurate translation of the page you're looking at. Rely on it instead to give you the "gist" of whatever it translates.

You don't have to come to this item to use the translation tools. When you enter a news search, you'll see that some search results that are not in your language of choice have "translate this page" next to their titles. Click on one of those and you'll be presented with a framed, translated version of the page.

Translate text:

from  
or
Translate a web page:  

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    SPELL: SPELLING CHECK (IN ENGLISH ONLY)

Check a word or query with the [spell:] syntax

  fill in with your own keyword :
   Example : spell:Gougle

 

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