Shelly Sorochuk, a CBC Radio AP in Vancouver, asks:
I was wondering if you knew of any way to search the internet–ie. using Google–to find stories specifically relating to Canada and Cdn things? Is there an easy way to search international papers for stories that talk about things that are Cdn?
There are a couple of ways to restrict your search in Google to Canada. The easiest way is to add
site:.ca
to your search term (remember both the colon and the period). So, for instance, if you wanted to search for articles about shampoo but only wanted to get a list of pages within Canada, you’d type this into Google:
You can restrict your search to specific web sites, too, by adding the domain name after site:. For instance “shampoo site:cbc.ca” will get you pages on the CBC.ca site with shampoo on them.
One other way, if you’re looking for more newsy items, is to do your search at http://news.google.ca and add the word “canada” to your search term. For instance, on that site:
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They Advanced Search Page in news.google.com is helpful too:
http://news.google.ca/advanced_news_search
There is a “location” field where you can type in Canada or Ontario
Ok here’s one tip to add for people who are looking to find things ONLY from canadian sources on Google News.
Just put “location:canada” in the search bar box along with your key word. For example “prime minister location:canada”. That will search all canadian news sources for “prime minister”. Much more accurate search results.
I do it for almost all my searches…gets rid of all sorts of results from other countries that have nothing to do with what I’m looking for.