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What company does FB use for IP data? (maxmind etc) (7)

10-25-2013 09:39 AM #1 allthegold (Member)

I always thought they just assigned user's location based on their profile input.

So someone that lives in London per their profile would get ads for London even if they traveled to the US.

Might be wrong though.

10-25-2013 09:45 AM #2 AdzMed (Member)

tnx.

I mean for the location it tells where your IP is from (u can see that from settings)

Quote Originally Posted by allthegold View Post
I always thought they just assigned user's location based on their profile input.

So someone that lives in London per their profile would get ads for London even if they traveled to the US.

Might be wrong though.

10-25-2013 12:32 PM #3 caurmen (Administrator)

Apparently Facebook's geolocation is done via a company called Factual:

http://www.factual.com/

I found that out via this Stack Overflow article, which has a lot of other interesting data on geolocation too:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...-vs-foursquare

10-25-2013 12:55 PM #4 AdzMed (Member)

Thanks..

That seems to be the case for fb places, but for "active session" ones are getting diffrent location then what factual suggests.

Quote Originally Posted by caurmen View Post
Apparently Facebook's geolocation is done via a company called Factual:

http://www.factual.com/

I found that out via this Stack Overflow article, which has a lot of other interesting data on geolocation too:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...-vs-foursquare

10-25-2013 06:35 PM #5 dynamicsoul (Member)

what about ip2location ?

10-25-2013 08:14 PM #6 AdzMed (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by dynamicsoul View Post
what about ip2location ?
Nope not that one either...

lol

10-26-2013 09:11 AM #7 caurmen (Administrator)

They may have rolled their own by now. It would seem like a sensible business decision given the amount of data they have access to.

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