GeoURL: We Know Where You Live, Work and Blog!

hrbrmstr writes "GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. Many potential 'location-based services' can spring from this if the database gets big enough. The site has an easy process for maintaining your entries. And can even generate RSS feeds for a given geographical area."

Comments

There goes the neighborhood?

[Anonymous Coward]

Doesn't anyone else long for the privacy and anonynimity that the 'net used to provide?

Posting anonymously for effect, of course....

Probably bought by Google.

[$$$$$exyGal]

At first I thought this was just another lame whois database of url's. That's been proven to be idiotic. What this is is a human-edited database of url's to locations. You can submit your own.

If they are successful (will need a very large database), then I bet Google would be very interested.

--free sex

Only RSS per location?

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

I'm not about to give them ANY information unless I can download a full dump of their database whenever I want.
Anyone remember how badly people got burned by CDDB? Its the same buisness plan;

Phase 1) Invent neat idea with a few good uses so that people will populate your content
Phase 2) ???
Phase 3) Profit!

where ??? becomes 'Fuck over users, start charging for access, bite hand that feeds.'.

My Blog is 500+ miles away

[daniel_isaacs]

Really. It's co-loed in Ohio. I'm not in Ohio. And my companies website? It's 300 miles away. How functional can this be, really?

Re:My Blog is 500+ miles away

[iso]

I agree. All of my websites are in Salt-Lake City, Utah and I live in Toronto, Ontario. Besides the fact that I'm in a different country than my web host, it's also nearly 4,000km away. Though I would imagine they've thought of this situation, and while they probably default, there must be a way to tweak the results.

- j

Why do it by hand?

[FyRE666]

You know, if Google decided to search for a specific META tag that gives the geographic location of a company, then I'm betting a lot of designers/companies would add it immediately (and update old sites). If they announced this new tag I'd certainly update some sites!

At the moment, it would be a bit hit and miss to try to search for an address in a page to generate the database programmatically.

Re:Ahem?

[digitalsushi]

I think as the net gets more and more mainstream, it becomes safer and safer to share your personal information online- I think it'll get to a point where it's as safe as real life- whether that be sharing your phone number in your sig, writing your name on a bathroom stall, or filling out all the info on a Church flyer. That is, real life isn't that safe either, but it's safer than what we fear online. Also then again, I'm not in the right demographic for my claims to be bold. If I were a 16 year old girl saying the same thing, these words would have a different weight behind them. Instead, knowing that I'm a 23 year old male and having a phone number of 603 330 3532- I just proved that it's not a big deal cause there ain't but nobody who's gonna look that up, much less call it, and MUCH less stalk me by it. :D "As the Internet becomes less and less an exclusive club, it becomes a universe, common to all, and sacred to none." When's the last time you heard of someone getting hacked via YellowPages?

I made a similar site, just for fun

[skurk]

It uses GeoIP and a Perl snippet to determine where the users are at. But ofcourse, it's nothing like that site.

http://www.internetional.org/ if you want to give it a try.