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Re: Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-ip for 96.31.0.0/20 set correctly


From: Chris Hills <chaz () chaz6 com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:44:49 +0100

On 03/01/09 07:31, Martin Hannigan wrote:
Overall, geo location has turned out to be a somewhat valuable tool in terms
of language, fraud, and localization. I think that it's important to
continue to urge improvements in this technology, not divestment.

Is it really that difficult to check the Accept-Language header for determining the language to use? This is particularly useful in countries that either have no official language, countries that have more than one official language, and tourists.




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