Calishat: “I’ve been on a bit of a local search kick lately. Last month I created No Kings TV, which monitored news about the protests in 20 different US metro areas. Shortly after that, I made Local News TV, which lets users browse 660 local American TV stations by state/metro area and get recent content via YouTube RSS feeds. Over the last week I’ve been exploring what I can do when I put together my own datasets. Today I finished creating Local Search America, a new way to create specific search spaces for authoritative institutions in American DMAs (Designated Market Area, essentially a metro area. You can learn more about DMAs here.) Enter a city and state and Local Search America identifies the television stations and government agencies which serve that area as well as the institutions of higher education in that area. Up to 25 of those sites can bebundled into a Google search (using Google’s site: operator.) Here’s how it works…”