----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheerfulpickle" <cheerfulpic...@gmail.com>
To: "Google Personalized Search"
<Google-Personalized-Search@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 11:19 PM
Subject: Only Getting Half the News in Personalized News

> Hi, gang,

> I have a problem.  I live in Washington, not that city back east that
> thinks it is the only Washington (and is notorious for being a news
> hog), but the State of Washington.  In setting up my Personalized News
> for my hometown, it was easy, just set it up for "Tacoma."  However, it
> is not so easy for state news.  If I set it up just with "Washington" I
> get tons of news about that city back east.  If I use "Washington -DC,"
> believe it or not, almost all I get is still about that city back east.

> It seems that I have to set it up for "Washington State."  However,
> this, too, has a problem.  Recently, as a test, I set up for four other
> states with five articles per state to be displayed.  Clicking on
> these, I found that exactly one-half of the articles about news in
> those states did not have the word "state" in the article.  By
> extrapolation, this is telling me that I am probably missing half the
> news about Washington State.

> Does anyone know how I can get that other half of the news without
> being inundated with tons of news about that city back east?

> Thank you.