[179718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luan Nguyen)
Tue May 5 12:07:34 2015
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Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 12:03:23 -0400
From: "Luan Nguyen" <lnguyen@opsource.net>
To: "Matthew Black" <Matthew.Black@csulb.edu>
Reply-To: luan.nguyen@dimensiondata.com
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, NANOG Mailing List <nanog@nanog.org>
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There's a form here - https://support.google.com/websearch/contact/ip
But google is pretty smart, its systems will learn the correct geolocation
over time...
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 11:22 AM, 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."
>
>
> 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
> >
> >
> >
>
