Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups

[Pedro Cavaca <pmsac.nanog () gmail com>]

On 5 May 2015 at 16:22, Matthew Black <Matthew.Black () csulb edu> wrote:

> 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."

I don't see the text you quoted on the URL I provided.

I do see a "report the problem"  clickable, which was the point I was
trying to make on my original answer.



> 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