May 27, 2021
Inaccurate IPv6 geolocation appears again
After posting https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/106991146/is-there-any-working-way-to-correct-ip-geolocation-in-google-services?hl=en , the geolocation corrected in a few days - all Google services in use (search, YouTube, GMail) started to geolocate our IPv6 address correctly to CZ.
Unfortunately, this week the geolocation became inaccurate again - two days ago Google Search started to display my location as Russia, yesterday YouTube started to play Russian ads and today also the activity history in GMail locates the address to Russia (yesterday, in the same view, the same address was located to Czechia). I've also reported the problem in "Report IP Problems" form, but in the past this form had no effect at all.
Curious about this is that the whole range 2001:15e8:100::/40 of my ISP is registered in CZ, as can be seen in RIPE and WhatIsMyIPAddress.com and this network address block never changed its owner or location.
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Google maintain their own database for geolocation, independent from other recognized official sources. As this is a user-to-user forum, we've no idea how or why they do this.
I assumed that the issue had been fixed when I heard nothing back from you on your original thread.
I've referred this back to the Google team for an update.
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May 29, 2021
Google maintain their own database for geolocation, independent from other recognized official sources. As this is a user-to-user forum, we've no idea how or why they do this.
I assumed that the issue had been fixed when I heard nothing back from you on your original thread.
I've referred this back to the Google team for an update.
Original Poster Ondrej Holas marked this as an answer
May 29, 2021
Yes, the issue was fixed for a while, Google services (search, YT, GMail) localized our outgoing IPv6 address correctly to CZ. I couldn't reply to the original thread as it was already locked.
Jun 3, 2021
Thanks for help.
It has gradually fixed, yesterday YouTube started to play ads in correct language and Google search the detected location changed to CZ. Today even GMail activity history says "Czechia". Let's hope that it is fixed permanently this time.