GeoURL Returns

If you scroll down and look on the bottom of the left-hand column of the main page here, you will notice a GeoURL tag. This links to a site where there is a database of the geographical locations of websites.

For a long time the GeoURL database has not functioned, it being neglected as the original developer, Joshua Schachter, moved on to greater things (he is the creator of del.icio.us). The database has found a new maintainer, and as of last week, it is online again!

For those of you who want to add their own website to this database, the instructions are here. Basically, you add a meta tag giving your site’s latitude and longitude to your web page, and then ping the GeoURL site with your site’s URL.