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Efour
14-07-2011, 10:29
Every mornign i check a few joke websites "collage humour" silly pictures fail blog, those kind of sites.

Sometimes there is a pop up, usually for a dating site.

Now these try and personalise by reading your ip, i assume, and giving it a geographical location.

Most of the time it gets it right.... but lots of times it says "Stevenage"

This is so far away from me... how on earth does it come up with this ?
IS this an indication of some wonky routing issues?:p:

Kymmy
14-07-2011, 10:35
Nope, it's just Geocoding and sometimes the database is wrong.. It's all done purely on your IP