On 5 May 2015 at 16:22, Matthew Black <Matthew.Black@csulb.edu> wrote:
Pedro Cavaca suggests:
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."
I don't see the text you quoted on the URL I provided. I do see a "report the problem" clickable, which was the point I was trying to make on my original answer.
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
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