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I'm currently running a modified Wordpress site that is uniquely designed to simply publish links to other sites, similar to The Drudge Report. Right now I have a few dozen Google Alerts setup and go through each result manually and if it matches a few niche keywords I'm working with, then I add a link to the article to my site. I do the manual checking because sometimes Google Alerts finds links to sites that belong to service providers, organizations, or products, but all I want are mainstream news articles. So my question is there a more efficient - and ideally automated - way to go about performing highly qualitative searches and aggregating such links?

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Maybe one way could be to stop spamming the web with usueless link farms sites. Your life would also benefit of a great time saving. – Marco Demaio Jul 17 '11 at 15:36
Thanks for posting your negativity and sharing it with the community here Marco, but all you've shown is how arrogant and rude you are. This has nothing to do with link farms. My goal is to collect information about a niche topic then publishing a curated list of links for my own education as well as helping others. I think your life would also "benefit of a great time saving" by keeping your ignorant thoughts to yourself. – Matt Jul 17 '11 at 21:46
didn't mean to offend you, reading again my comment it does not look that rude, I simply misread your question, sorry for the mistake then. – Marco Demaio Jul 19 '11 at 8:26

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If you change your alert to only look for News it should remove sites such as service providers, organisations and products.

You can also remove sites from your search using -site: in your search.

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Thanks Toby, I could add that to my existing alerts and get some better results. I also came across Yahoo Pipes which looks promising. – Matt Jul 17 '11 at 5:05
Yahoo Pipes is very cool, don't know why I didn't think of it in my original answer sorry! – Toby Jul 17 '11 at 11:06

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