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....@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 <jo...@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, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for > Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. > http://jl.ly > > >
