Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

Re:Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search by catch23 on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @08:07AM (#3129729)

I always hated how weather sites could not just detect my approximate location based off of ip (eg weather.com) and required me to enter in my zip code, google fixed that.

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Re:Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search by eli on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:00AM (#3130149)

http://www.wunderground.com/ has worked by geoip for a while now.

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Re:Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search by ajross on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @11:27AM (#3130557)

Pretty sure they got that after google. For years, wunderground was the best of a bunch of terrible web sites. They're still about 40% ads by pixel though, and have a hugely cluttered UI. I'll use them as a second step (Google's "detailed forecast" link) after typing "weather" into the chrome address bar. But broadly, they still suck compared to Google.

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Re:Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search by bigethan on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @02:14PM (#3131331)

http://www.wund.com/

less typing and a much cleaner interface.

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Re:Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search by artur_ on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @09:16AM (#3129976)

About a year ago I've built a small weather app which detects users' location using Geolocation API: http://wthr.in

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Re:Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search by alexitosrv on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @11:27AM (#3130558)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weather

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