NewsBlur sites created from some Google Alerts RSS feeds show "[Untitled]" as site name

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Repro:

  1. Create a Google Alert for a common term, e.g., “los angeles”, and add that feed to NewsBlur; the site name shows as

    2. Create a Google Alert for an uncommon term, e.g., “dkifsahfs”, and add that feed to NewsBlur; the site name shows as

    I propose that NewsBlur should never choose Untitled] as a site name. If it can’t get any information from the feed – and I don’t know whether this is the case or not --, it should at least use the feed URL to create something more meaningful, e.g., “Google Alerts - [Unknown]” in this case.
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