The 21st iteration of When on Google Earth has just been successfully won by Chuck Jones – again! The range of periods covered by the game has been quite catholic so far – everything from the modern day to the deepest past, demonstrating the range of interests in archaeology today.

To all of you who have hosted an iteration of the game, what kind of meta information is it generating? Who’s been visiting? How many? Who’s been linking to it?

Does this game have any impact in terms of public archaeology?

Below are my stats for the first post:
862 views total, 342 of those in 2009
4 on average per day in 2009

Hmm. My wordpress stat tools don’t really allow me to get the information I’m looking for.

A google search of “when on google earth” returns 3790 pages.

Full history of When On Google Earth:

#	Host:	Victor:	Site:	Period:
1	Shawn Graham	Chuck Jones	Takht-i Jamshid / Persepolis terrace, Iran	Achaemenid period
2	Chuck Jones	PDD	Church of Saint Simeon at Qalat Siman, Syria	5th-6th c. CE
2.1	Chuck Jones	Paul Zimmerman	Qal’at al-Bahrain	16th c. CE
3	Paul Zimmerman	Heather Baker	Baraqish (Yathill), Yemen	Minaean
4	Heather Baker	Jason Ur	Mohenjo Daro,	ca. 2600-1900 BCE
5	Jason Ur	Dan Diffendale	Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico	1st-5th centuries CE
6	Dan Diffendale	Claire of Geevor Mine	Segontium, Caernarfon, Wales	77ish to about 390 CE
7	Claire of Geevor Mine	Ivan Cangemi	Carn Euny	ca. 500 BCE-100 CE
8	Ivan Cangemi	Southie Sham	Monks Mound (Cahokia), IL, USA	fl. 1050-1200
9	Southie Sham	Dan Diffendale	Gergovia	fl. 1st c. BCE
10	Dan Diffendale	Dorothy King	Kastro Larissa/Argos, Greece	ca. 1100 CE
11	Dorothy King	Daniel Pett	Utica, Tunisia	8th century BCE–until 2nd Century CE
12	Daniel Pett	Neil Silberman	Caesarea Maritima, Israel	1st century CE–Present
13	Neil Silberman	Chuck Jones	Graceland, Memphis, TN, United States	1939 CE–Present
14	Chuck Jones	Aphaia	Bam Citadel, Iran	pre-6th century BC–19th century CE
15	Aphaia	Daniel Pett	Myrina, Lemnos, Greece	Classical Greek–present
16	Daniel Pett	Paul Barford	Dambulla Cave Temple, Sri Lanka	1st century BCE
17	Paul Barford	Scott McDonough	Rosetta (Rashid), Egypt	Ptolemaic, Mamluk
18	Scott McDonough	Lindsay Allen	Ani, Turkey	Medieval, 10th-14th centuries CE
19	Lindsay Allen	Heather in Vienna	South Shields, England, UK	Roman Imperial
20	Heather in Vienna	Scott McDonough	Suomenlinna/Sveaborg fortress, Helsinki, Finland	1748-present