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How does Google know my location? It shows in left side of the search results?
2011-04-13 03:34:00
Hello, you could turn that option off if you so choose. If you are interested, just do the following:-- click on change location-- on page that shows, delete the location showing-- save your preferencesYou will still see, local search results because of your IP address.
2011-04-12 17:43:00
Mitesh,Google can tell your geographical location because you make a connection to its servers using your
IP address
. IP addresses are typically local. If you would use a VPN service from another geographical location, you would have a different IP address, and Google would think you were from a different location.
2011-05-18 17:14:00
That's not true Tina...I was on a different IP address ( @ UNI) and at home I did a similar search and it came up a search list with two links in purple as if I have searched that before...well I haven't; I did that search first at uni early afternoon and came home input a similar string and the results list came up with two strings in purple. I found strange because I only looked for the topic at uni, using firefox. Arrived home I used Chrome and checked the links and were the same 2 pages I looked at before I left!I thought the same as you and it should be like that...but this event is driving me nuts! How did google search engine recognised my two previous visits in a different computer and location?Many ThanksCarla
2012-05-01 11:49:45
You were probably signned in on your Google account (using gmail?) and you have remmeber history option turned on.