Google News has no "follow" button you can use outside Google, but every page of it has a feed behind it: the front page, each topic, and any search you type. FeedBro finds that feed for you, so a search like "heat pumps" or the name of your company becomes a steady stream of new articles in your reading list.
Follow a Google News search
- Open news.google.com and search for what you want to follow.
- Copy the address of the results page from your browser's address bar.
- In FeedBro, press Add a feed or website and paste the address.
- Press Follow. New articles that match your search now arrive in FeedBro like any other feed.
You do not need to build a feed address yourself. FeedBro turns the search page into its feed, and it keeps the edition in your own language when the address does not name one.
Follow a topic or the front page
The same works for a topic page (World, Business, Technology and the rest) and for the Google News front page. Paste the page's address and follow it.
Read the full article from the publisher
Articles from Google News point to a Google page first. FeedBro follows that link to the publisher's own article, so you can read the full text in FeedBro's reader instead of a one-line summary.
Make it work for you with automations
A news search can bring in a lot. Two automations help:
- An alert: when the title contains a word you care about, send yourself a push notification or an email.
- A filter: when the title contains a word you never want to see, hide the article.
Set them up under Automations in the menu. You can keep each search in its own collection too, so it has its own list and unread count.
Good to know
- Use quotation marks in your search for an exact phrase, as you would on Google.
- Google decides what appears in its results, so a search feed shows what Google News finds, in the order Google publishes it.
- Each search you follow counts as one feed on your plan.
