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YQL is a clever fallback when the geolocation api is missing, but the current query isn't working properly.

Here's a quick test. http://jsfiddle.net/zwXq6/
When using the native geolocation api it's working fine on Firefox and Chrome.
On IE 8, using the pidget.geoip query, it always returns 37.424900054932, -122.0074005127

I did some poking around to find out why. It looks like you are using this query: 'select * from pidgets.geoip'

I typed that query into the YQL Console to see what happens.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/ ... eswithkeys

The ip address that gets returned with the location information (216.39.58.78) is not my ip address.
Navigating to 216.39.58.78 from my browser gives me a yahoo error page.
So I assume pidget.geoip is returning the location of the YQL server.

I'm not familiar with many YQL tables but I assume you could do something like
select * from pidgets.geoip where ip = (select ip from someplace)

Also a minor thing, the example code on the YUI Gallery page has a typo in it. It tries to call Y.Geo.getCurrentLocation, but the actual function is Y.Geo.getCurrentPosition