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RE: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
From: Matthew Black <Matthew.Black () csulb edu>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:22:05 +0000
Pedro Cavaca suggests:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/873?hl=en
Correct me if I'm wrong, that looks like Google simply saves location data in a browser cookie. "A location helps Google find more relevant information when you use Search, Maps, and other Google products. Learn how Google saves location information on this computer." matthew black california state university, long beach -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+matthew.black=csulb.edu () nanog org] On Behalf Of Pedro Cavaca Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 3:41 PM To: John Levine Cc: NANOG Mailing List Subject: Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/873?hl=en On 7 April 2015 at 23:26, John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
A friend of mine lives in Alabama and has business service from at&t. But Google thinks he's in France. We've checked for various possibilities of VPNs and proxies and such, and it's pretty clear that the Goog's geolocation for addresses around 99.106.185.0/24 is screwed up. Bing and other services correctly find him in Alabama. Poking around I see lots of advice about how to use Google's geolocation data, but nothing on how to update it. Anyone know the secret? TIA Regards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
Current thread:
- RE: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Matthew Black (May 05)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Pedro Cavaca (May 05)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Luan Nguyen (May 05)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Matt Palmer (May 05)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Mark Andrews (May 05)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Matt Palmer (May 05)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Fred Hollis (May 06)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Christopher Morrow (May 06)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Bryan Socha (May 16)
- Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups Matt Palmer (May 05)