Title: Mapping Web Pages by Internet Protocol (IP) addresses: Analyzing Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Web Search Engine Results,
Abstract: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are frequently used as a method of locating
web users by researchers in several different fields. However, there are
competing reports concerning the accuracy of those locations, and little
research has been done in manually comparing the IP geolocation databases and
web page geographic information. This paper categorized web page from the Yahoo
search engine into twelve categories, ranging from 'Blog' and 'News' to
'Education' and 'Governmental'. Then we manually compared the mailing or street
address of the web page's content creator with the geolocation results by the
given IP address. We introduced a cartographic design method by creating kernel
density maps for visualizing the information landscape of web pages associated
with specific keywords.