Find Local News With Nothing But A Street Address: StreetScoop Local News Search
Today’s Gizmo combines the authority of the FCC TV license database with local news search. And when I say local, I mean, like, a street.
Here’s how StreetScoop Local News Search works:
– Enter an address in the United States
– The address converts to latitude/longitude
– A dataset is consulted to find the nearest large city to that address
– That city name is searched in the FCC’s TV permit database and the domain names of local TV stations are aggregated into a query string
– The query string along with the street name are bundled into a Google search which opens in a new window.
Local news search! Authoritative sources!
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Very cool, but the results are …. dated. 🙁
Running down the first page of results, I see (in the order that Google presented them):
2019, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2016, (no date), (no date), 2019, 2021, 2022, 2021, 2022, 2020, (no date), 2016, .. and so on.
Once you have the search, you can refine it. I considered creating date-limited Google searches, but some searches have so few results I was afraid I would eliminate too much that way.
Also, once you have the search you can save it as a Google Alert (either email or RSS) which mostly guarantees fresh content after that, yeah?