[179293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Tue Apr 7 21:24:30 2015
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Date: 7 Apr 2015 21:24:26 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Pedro Cavaca" <pmsac.nanog@gmail.com>
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> https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/873?hl=en
He says he sent in the IP update three weeks ago, nothing happened. Any
other suggestions?
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> On 7 April 2015 at 23:26, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
>>
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