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This tool was designed to search the following press release agencies:
| Press Release Agency | Domain URL |
| BusinessWire | businesswire.com |
| EIN Presswire | einpresswire.com |
| Globe Newswire | globenewswire.com |
| Newswire (Canada) | newswire.ca |
| PR Newswire | prnewswire.com |
| PR Web | prweb.com |
| Press releases usually have a blurb near the bottom about all the parties involved in whatever the press release was about. Sometimes that can contain much useful information. Other times, it may be more fruitful to look at the body of the release. |
| Put business names in quotes so they are searched as phrases, not individual words. (Ex. "Tennessee Fried Turkey") |
| Because press releases are pretty common, make sure to add additional keywords to your search. For example: if you are interested in knowing how many employees a company has, add the word employee* (the asterisk is a wildcard that searches for both employee and employees) after the business name. Likewise, if you |
| Likewise, you may end up with too many releases on something complete irrelevant to your search. For example: if a company wants the world to know about its new line of reverse osmosis filters, add the phrase -"reverse osmosis" (a minus sign before a phrase in quotes) to exclude it from your next batch of results. |
| If you are getting too many results from agencies that you aren't interested in, add "-site:xxx.com" (replace xxx with the correct domain suffix) after your search term. For example, if you wanted to remove the Environmental Protection Agency from your result, add -site:newswire.ca after your search term. |
| These searches only allow you to filter by relevance and date, so adding additional keywords beyond the business name will help narrow down your results to a more useful and manageable size. |