Is there a way to merge google news alerts?

[Train]

There are a couple of newspapers I keep an eye on, but are not local to me. So I have google news alerts set up for certain topics, is there a way to merge the queries into one using some sort of boolean? The queries themselves each have a faily complex number of OR's and AND's. Can i do something like this:

(query 1) AND (query 2) AND (query3)

or would it be like this?

(query 1) OR (query 2) OR (query3)

anyone done this? I think im going to start expirimenting to see what I can get it to do, I was just hoping someone else alreadys knows.

 

[Train]

thanks for all the help guys, heh

So i figured out its (q1) OR (q2) etc

Remember that OR and AND have to be capitalized for Google to recognize it as an operator and not text, I also found out that The alerts are limited to 10 words, so try to consolidate common words and commands, such as:

((cars OR automobiles) OR (trains AND planes)) location😱hio

instead of:

(cars OR automobiles location😱hio) OR (trains AND planes location😱hio)



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