Fixing Google geolocation screwups

Fred Hollis fred at web2objects.com
Tue Apr 7 22:42:00 UTC 2015


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 at 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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