I added a Google News Alert for the keyword Nederland the other day, without first checking what kind of results I’d get with that. Seeing the first actual results this afternoon I wish I had, though, because 99% of what it turned up was references to Nederland, TX and Nederland, CO. Those Americans just couldn’t leave well enough alone and had to name a place or two after my country of birth! And not particularly impressive places either, one has a population of under 1,500 and the other of under 20,000. The latter you might be able to call a town, or a city, by its official definition, but the other really isn’t worth the name town even if the Gazetteer calls it that. It’s more like a village, sheesh.
So… I’ll be keeping an eye on that News Alert but I’ll either need to explicitely exclude those two places somehow, or give up on it. 
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