Comments on: The Google Geolocation Nightmare

By: Muggsy

Muggsy — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:54:27 +0000

I’ve also had a few “odd” results but maybe that’s jkust because it’s early days. Google would probably put it down the “teething troubles”. Personally, I dont find it that useful either.

By: fascias manchester

fascias manchester — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:46:24 +0000

I don’t know why google is obsessed with using geo location when it is innacurate.

I also don’t think its fair that it shows the local maps results much more prominently now, before the natural search listings.

By: cctv installers

cctv installers — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:27:28 +0000

I also have been having this problem, google seems to be trying to personalise search results too much. I even get different results from my laptop upstairs to my computer downstairs in the same house using the same router.

By: ken hill

ken hill — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:04:21 +0000

Well, you have most certainly made a valid point – I have checked various key word searches and you are on the button – cannot believe that Google are trailing Twitter! Thanks for sharing!

By: Captain Smegma

Captain Smegma — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:59:52 +0000

I only need to locate to a specific country. What is the best way – Google, IP tracing or something else?
Many thanks,
CS

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By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:28:21 +0000

Hi, I made a similar observation here in germany with my vdsl connection. I am near munich but the various locations that are served to the www from the telecom are scatered all over germany.
I am not sure whether this is an issue only with these high speed connections or not. I will research this further as I also have clients interessed in the local marketing…
Regards,
Pete

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 07:43:49 +0000

Hi,

I have just started using adwords for a picture book I wrote and published, according to the statistics it is being clicked a lot but i have yet to find it and it’s quite expensive. Anyway my book is called ‘Jacob and Sorrel a story of two caterpillars’, I wrote it as a children’s book which would be fun for adults to read as well. Looks like maybe I should stay away from adwords, but what can you do. It’s probably being advertised with horticulture.

By: Family Bounce Inflatables

Family Bounce Inflatables — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:14:50 +0000

The Google Places results that rank above organic listings are a problem for local businesses who are based in one city, but cover 5-6 surrounding cities. We rank highly in our city and are top for other cities in organic listings, but that is below Places listings for these other cities. Very frustrating!

Google Places should be about the cities you serve, rather than the city in which you are based, but perhaps that would result in more spam on local listings?