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So, I want to be able to find the users location (even if it’s only down to the city/town level), when they log onto the home page of my website. I figured this isn’t impossible because Google seems to do it when you log on their main page, it seems to gear your search results toward your area, etc.
What would I look into to be able to do this?
You can use GeoIP location services, who have various levels of accuracy. There may be other providers of IP-location databases too.
Another option is to try to use HTML5 location services, such as in http://html5demos.com/geo and http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html.