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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Geesh... this is just spooky.
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Where+am+I%3F
What's more fascinating is the method they use to do this. In addition to
all the things you'd think of, the company that publishes the database also
has deals with Amazon, AOL, etc to get lists of IP vs sign-up geographic
locations. So when you sign up for a service (Amazon, facebook, etc) from a
particular IP, that and the address goes to the company, who then do
statistics to figure out if enough people with similar IP addresses are
putting in similar physical addresses.
At least, that's one way MaxMind works, and that's pretty much what most
people use.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
C# - a language whose greatest drawback
is that its best implementation comes
from a company that doesn't hate Microsoft.
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