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Re: GEO location issue with google
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Lassoff)
Sat Feb 8 01:36:02 2014
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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 22:35:38 -0800
From: Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com>
To: Praveen Unnikrishnan <piu@pmgroupuk.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Here's the FAQ on this topic:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/873?hl=en
It links to a contact form where you can ask for some redress.
Cheers,
jof
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Praveen Unnikrishnan <piu@pmgroupuk.com>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are an ISP based in UK. We have got an ip block from RIPE which is
> 5.250.176.0/20. All the main search engines like yahoo shows we are based
> in UK. But Google thinks we are from Saudi Arabia and we redirected to
> www.google.com.sa<http://www.google.com.sa> instead of googlw.co.uk. I
> have sent lot of emails to google but no luck. All the information from
> google are in Arabic and youtube shows some weird videos as well.
>
> Could anyone please help me to sort this out?
>
> Would be much appreciated for your time.
>
> Praveen Unnikrishnan
> Network Engineer
> PMGC Technology Group Ltd
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