Comments on: When Intuitive = Bad

Question: When Intuitive = Bad

the latin mouse — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:13:28 -0800

How do you search for a story in Google News when one of the parties involved in the story is a news outlet?

Suppose I wanted to find a story about executives from Fox News eating babies.

Typing Fox News "baby eating" or Fox News "baby eating" just gives me stories from Fox News about how Barrack Obama eats babies.

Is there a way to stop it from assuming I want stories from a news source when I want stories about a news source?

(This has been asked previously at the Google Help Forum, but not answered. The hive mind can surely do better!)

By: peacheater

peacheater — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:40:00 -0800

I'm not sure I understand your problem. Google News doesn't seem to do that for me at all. For example here are the results for " "fox news" eating babies". The results seem to be from other news outlets talking about Fox News.

By: milkrate

milkrate — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:43:37 -0800

Yes, there is a way. You just need to add -source to the string, like:
"fox news" "baby eating" -source:"fox news"

By: the latin mouse

the latin mouse — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:47:30 -0800

Thanks milkrate, it's working for me now.

By: otio

otio — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:48:19 -0800

Yeah, it seems to do this automatically but if you want to get fancy you can use advanced news search, type your search terms in the top box, and select "in the body of the article" from the occurrences drop-down menu at the bottom.