[Sussex] Google and GeoIP'ing

Dominic Humphries linux at oneandoneis2.org
Wed Sep 2 17:26:02 UTC 2009


Jon Fautley wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 11:05:49 +0100
> Andrew Guard <andrew09 at andrewguard.com> wrote:
> 
>> Google is GeoIP'ing now I can now prove it

Well, I searched for "registered address" and it returned a bunch of UK 
sites.. and I'm in California at the moment!

> I'm not aware they've ever hidden this fact? What's the problem with it?

It was a frustration when I went around Europe - every time I went to 
Google.com, it redirected me so I got Google in German, French, Italian...

Dominic



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