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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-other-stuff-too dept.

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."

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  1. Probably bought by Google. by $$$$$exyGal · · Score: 5, Insightful
    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.

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  2. Only RSS per location? by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.'.

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