Geolocation for Websites
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- Gordy22
Has anyone had any experience with using geolocation technologies on the web?
e.g., I need to set up a system where someone in the UK would get served up on version of a page, and someone in the US another.
For the record, i have googled but thought people may have a preferred provider / some insight.
- oculasm0
theyre not terribly accurate
but these two places might be a good start, http://ipinfodb.com/
http://www.ip2location.com/block…
this one generates an htaccess for you which you can place on your site via ftpif you're quite technical and have access at the server level theres an apache module http://www.maxmind.com/app/mod_g…
- As an example, I have my Mac's language set to en_GB, yet Google still comes up in Danish. Grr!Continuity
- autoflavour0
they are terribly annoying.. everytime i use google, it comes in german. which is awesome if you were german.. but im not
- Gordy220
I could really do with it just being by continent at the moment really.
- ribit0
We've used MaxMind GeoIP on our adserver (but not for serving site itself)