Too much IP Geolocation appears intentionally FAULTY
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However, for this to work that methodology by which the IP address is interpolated must be sound. This is where the individuals doing the work make or break the process.
HOWEVER, search engines obviously don't feel the need to get the thing right because increasingly I find myself being placed in foreign lands based on their interpretation of IP geolocation ...
For example, I live in West Columbia, South Carolina while google places me in Raleigh, North Carolina and all of their recommendations are oriented 240 miles to the North and are decidedly less than useful to me personally.
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The IP Geolocation which implements whois data gets it right. The idiots extrapolating subnets on their own don't. I have raised concerns with the search engine shitbirds to no avail.
I engage numerous IP geolocation sites and they get everything correctly because they correlate their database to the whois data for the address(es) in question. When my CIDR range is in the mix they come up with my name, address, phone number, and everything else associated with my uplink provider and registrar records of my network.
While I feel sure that the assholes at google and bing are simply outsourcing the technology and using whatever is provided, when you take it upon yourself to specify technological assumptions you need to at least ATTEMPT the due diligence to make sure your stupid data is correct lest you lose credibility.
Besides, it renders all the shopping and ad mess they value so highly a moot point when it's all too far away and irrelevant to be practical.
These stupid search engines don't care if their data is correct. Fake news. Fake data. It's all bull anymore.
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