What to Know

  • Go to www.google.com and search for the topic you want to create an RSS feed for. In this example, we’re using Nutrition.
  • On the search results page that appears, select the News tab.
  • Scroll to the bottom of the News results and press Create Alert.
  • On the Alerts page, be sure to sign in to your Google account first. Then, choose Show options towards the top of the page.
  • You can also go directly to Google Alerts to create an RSS feed on any topic, include news.
  • Next to How often, pick As-it-happens.
  • From the Deliver to drop-down menu, select RSS Feed. There are also other options you can customize in the drop-down lists in this section.
  • Once you’re satisfied with everything, press Create Alert.
  • Then you can select the RSS icon on the next page to copy the HTML for your feed reader.

Go to www.google.com and search for the topic you want to create an RSS feed for. In this example, we’re using Nutrition.

On the search results page that appears, select the News tab.

Scroll to the bottom of the News results and press Create Alert.

On the Alerts page, be sure to sign in to your Google account first. Then, choose Show options towards the top of the page. 

You can also go directly to Google Alerts to create an RSS feed on any topic, include news.

Next to How often, pick As-it-happens.

From the Deliver to drop-down menu, select RSS Feed. There are also other options you can customize in the drop-down lists in this section.

Once you’re satisfied with everything, press Create Alert.

Then you can select the RSS icon on the next page to copy the HTML for your feed reader. 

In a web browser, sign in to your Google account (or create a new Google account if you don’t have one yet). Navigate to News.Google.com.

You can either click the category sections in the left sidebar or use the search bar at the top to type in a keyword or phrase that you’d like to scour the news for. For some of the broad categories that appear in the left sidebar (such as Business, Technology, Entertainment, etc.), you’ll see subcategories appear in a horizontal menu at the top of their results, which you can click to filter everything else out.

If you’re more interested in stories about a particular subject (as opposed to a broader category), it can help to search for an exact phrase instead of just a word. To search for an exact phrase, include quotation marks around the phrase.

To search for multiple items, type in the word “OR” between the items, but do not include the quotation marks.

  • Example: “Dallas Cowboys” OR “Houston Texans"Results: Any news articles or blog posts containing the phrase “Dallas Cowboys” or “Houston Texans.”

Sometimes, you want to make sure two phrases are in a single article. This is done the same way as searching for multiple items, but type in the word “AND” instead of “OR.”

  • Example: “Dallas Cowboys” AND “Houston Texans"Results: Any news articles or blog posts that either contains both the phrase “Dallas Cowboys” and the phrase “Houston Texans” in the same article or blog post

Google will then search through every website classified as news and bring back results for your search.

Follow and Subscribe to a Topic

Similar to searching and adding an RSS feed to your RSS reader, you can choose Follow at the top of your topic to add it to your Google account.

Save Stories to Read Later and Customize Your News Experience

Choose a topic from the side menu that you’d like to follow. You can also search for a more specific topic.

When you arrive at the topic results, locate and press Follow just above the listing.

Once the blue start is filled in, you’ll be following the topic, and you’ll receive regular updates on it. You can always select Follow again to stop following it too.

Hover your cursor over any headline, and look for the bookmark icon. Press it to save it for later.

You can also select the three vertical dots icon to tell Google what you do or don’t like. You can choose to:

  • View full coverage for additional information from other sources on the same story;Hide all stories from that specific source;Like the story to get more stories like it; andDislike the story to get fewer stories like it.

View Your Topics and Saved Stories Under Favorites

To see all the headlines for the topics you subscribed to and the stories you saved for later in the previous steps, select Favorites in the left sidebar.

Your topics will appear as cards under the Topics & Sources tab. To see your saved stories, use the horizontal menu at the top to navigate to Saved stories.

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