Google Fetches Dog News
Would you like to keep up on dog news across the globe? Sit back and let Google do the legwork!
For a simple one-time search, go to Google News.
What do you want to read about? Dog news in your town, dog legislation, maybe agility trials?
Type the phrase “agility trials” in parentheses. (Hint: If you do not use parentheses, you will get news articles about agility trials, but also irrelevant articles that happen to use the words agility and trials, but not necessarily together.)
Perhaps you want to read about chihuahuas doing agility, any time, anywhere. Type the words dog agility chihuahua without parentheses and click the search button. (Hint: Typing your search terms in lower case will often give you more results.)
To continually monitor the news for your interest, you can have Google News email you periodically when news stories that would interest you are published. Here’s how:
Go to Google Alerts
- Type the keywords you are interested in, for example, “rhodesian ridgeback” (in parentheses) or basenji in the Search Terms box.
- Select the sources you want Google to search; news, the web, both news & the web, or discussion groups? (I would suggest starting with only news, or news and web.)
- Select how often you’d like email notifications from Google; once a week, daily, or as-it-happens.
- Type in the email address where you want your notifications sent. Click “create alert”.
- Google will send an email to this address, asking you verify that you made the request (an anti-spam measure). Open the email and click to verify.
You can go to Google Alerts at any time and cancel, change, or add new search requests.
Note: The majority of news sites publish articles for anyone to read. Some news sites require you to sign up for a free account to read articles. A few sites require a paid subscription before you can read articles.
