Or maybe they just shouldn't rely on it so much. It annoys me at the hoops I have to jump through to change the language on Google-owned properties when they think I'm coming from Czechoslovakia or Malaysia or some such... Some, like Blogger, still don't do it right...
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Mark Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > Funny this should come up... > > I've found that a local Mobile Broadband outfit here in NZ are using an IP > range that Akamai's Geolocation service thinks is actually in New Jersey. > Causes me some oddness as a result - this despite the fact that Maxmind has > it correct. > Whilst investigating this (just the day before yesterday) the following URL > came to my attention - allows you to check the IP you're on against Akamai's > Edgescape product: > > http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/products/personalization.html > > Their customer care team were responsive to an email I sent them (but were > unwilling to make changes without the request coming through their > customer... which in itself seems mad, their info is wrong - why don't they > correct it?) > > Geolocation is clever, but seems to be very retrospective, and very much an > imperfect science... there should be some obligation on people offering the > service to work very hard to keep their data current, given the effect it > can have on an end user. > > Mark. > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Martin Hannigan wrote: > >> Maxmind www.maxmind.com is a fairly good indicator of what geo-locators >> are >> seeing, but I recall a recent thread here that there have been >> disagreements >> between the various geolocation services. >> >> I think that some of it depends on the reference sources i.e. how many and >> what the algorithms are and also the update frequency. Using plain old >> whois >> data, for example, is notoriously unreliable, but definitely "usable" as a >> reference. >> >> Might be nice if search engines and cdn's had a verification site for >> checking and suggesting corrections i.e. >> www.favoritesearchengine.com/ipverifiy >> >> >> Best, >> >> Martin >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Frank Bulk - iName.com >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> We were assigned a new block from ARIN two weeks ago and are getting >>> several >>> reports from end users that the Spanish and German versions of Google's >>> search page are coming up. >>> >>> IP2Location and Maxmind are mostly correct, but there appears to be no >>> way >>> for me to verify that Google and Akamai have 96.31.0.0/20 listed >>> correctly. >>> >>> Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction so I can make an >>> authoritative check. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Frank >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Martin Hannigan [email protected] >> p: +16178216079 >> > >
