[179291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron C. de Bruyn)
Tue Apr 7 19:30:15 2015
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From: "Aaron C. de Bruyn" <aaron@heyaaron.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:29:57 -0700
To: Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I figure they all collaborate. I updated one of our IPs with MaxMind
and a few weeks later Google was fixed.
Of course that could be because half the staff here carry tiny
GPS-enabled Google location reporting devices in their pocket too...
-A
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, Google has their own internal system. Doubt MaxMind will help out.
>
> This discussions and others like it may lead you in the right direction:
> https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/fkyem9xUKOQ
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron@heyaaron.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> You might try here: https://www.maxmind.com/en/correction
>>
>> -A
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Fred Hollis <fred@web2objects.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for sending this to the list: We have the very same issue as well
>> > (both IPv4+IPv6). If someone knows the magic button to solve this,
>> > please
>> > contact me as well.
>> >
>> >
>> > On 08.04.2015 at 00:26 John Levine 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
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>
>
