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Re: Fixing Google geolocation screwups


From: Josh Reynolds <josh () spitwspots com>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:29:55 -0800

maxmind is the company that does it for speedtest.net

So if you've ever wondered why your IP blocks still show up as coming from your upstream and not you, well, that's why.

/hard_learned_trade_secret

On 04/07/2015 03:17 PM, Blair Trosper 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



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