It occurred to me that, while many readers are past masters at searching for the very latest news on the LBAM spray public health crisis we are all trying to fight, others may just be getting familiar with the Internet. I hope this may be helpful advice. Here are 2 ways I search for LBAM spray information.

Google’s News Search

As my arrow in the above image shows, there is a link at the top left of the Google main search page to their news service. Click on this link and it will take you to their news page where you can type in phrases like “lbam aerial spray”, “lbam moth spray, etc.”

However, because Google’s job is to deliver what they consider the most relevant results, this search may yield old news because it became popular (lots of people clicked on it, or it’s coming from an authority source like CBS or things along those lines that are factors in Google’s algorithm by which it judges the relevance of pages). Fortunately, as the image below will illustrate, you can click the little link that says Sorted By Date and it will show you the most recent news, rather than the most popular.

Google’s Blog Search
Have you ever noticed that little link at the top of Google’s main page that says More? Lots of people don’t ever notice that it’s there. The More link opens up a drop down menu of Google’s Vertical Search Options. As you will see, this includes things like Books, Videos, and Blogs.

Simply click the link that says blogs and you’ll be taken to a page where you can type in your LBAM-related searches (lbam spray, lbam moth, etc.). You will be returned a set of blog posts from all the bloggers who are writing about this issue. As with Google News, you can have the posts sorted either by relevance or by date. I like to sort them by date so I can see what is newest. The nice thing about reading blogs is that they represent a chance for you to communicate directly with one other person (the author) who cares about the aerial spraying. You might make an important connection, learn something you didn’t know from the blogger, or leave comments to share what you know with them.

Over the past couple of weeks, I have observed that more and more bloggers are jumping into this, getting the word out to the world about what is happening to us in California. This is so important.

Other Options
Just as you used Google’s vertical search dropdown to access their Blog Search, you can choose the Video option in the dropdown menu. This will take you to a page where you can search for LBAM spray-related videos. Or, you can choose the YouTube option. Google owns both their own video service and YouTube. Or, you can obviously go directly to Youtube.com and search there. The videos from folks like EON and LBAMspray just keep getting better and better. I search to see if there are new ones every day.

Do you have a different way that you are searching for LBAM news, articles or reports that I haven’t mentioned here? Please, share your methods in the comments field.

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