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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