[179286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pedro Cavaca)
Tue Apr 7 18:43:23 2015
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From: Pedro Cavaca <pmsac.nanog@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:41:04 +0100
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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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
>
>
>
