New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do Google/Facebook/Twitter/Netflix/Spotify determine my location?
Ask HN: How do Google/Facebook/Twitter/Netflix/Spotify determine my location?
2 by margal | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm using my corporate gateway to access the web and our servers are located in Finland. A month ago, Google started to think I'm from Russia so suddenly my search results are in Russian. I've tried to submit to google that there are getting it wrong, no answer. I've searched the web, it seems like this is something a lot of people are experiencing and even they didn't got a response from google about it. I've tried to sample my IP in different services like IP2Location and MaxMind, all giving me the current location in Finland. I know I can specifically tell google my location but now I'm really trying to find out how each company determines my location. Any one knows?
2 by margal | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm using my corporate gateway to access the web and our servers are located in Finland. A month ago, Google started to think I'm from Russia so suddenly my search results are in Russian. I've tried to submit to google that there are getting it wrong, no answer. I've searched the web, it seems like this is something a lot of people are experiencing and even they didn't got a response from google about it. I've tried to sample my IP in different services like IP2Location and MaxMind, all giving me the current location in Finland. I know I can specifically tell google my location but now I'm really trying to find out how each company determines my location. Any one knows?
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