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( Problem ) Bought Australia VPS from HostHatch.com – Why Is Google Showing United States?
taimoorkhan12
Member
Hi everyone,
I recently purchased an Australia (Sydney) VPS from HostHatch. IP lookup tools like ipinfo.io, WHOIS, and whoer all correctly show AU (Sydney, NSW).
However, Google Search shows “United States – From your IP address” at the bottom of the page. In addition, YouTube and other social media platforms are also serving US-based user data.
Interestingly, when I check my IP location on third-party sites, it consistently shows Sydney, Australia.
Has anyone experienced this with HostHatch AUS IP ranges? Is this just a Google geo-database delay, CDN routing behavior, or possibly related to ASN/previous IP allocation history?
Would appreciate any insight.
Thanks!
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Go to this URL once in your web browser:
https://www.google.com/ncr
“NCR” = No Country Redirect.
It sets a cookie that tells Google to always keep you on the global (U.S.) site.
If you’re scripting or using a CLI browser, you can append ?ncr=1 to the search URL.
After visiting google.com/ncr:
Go to Settings › Search Settings
(bottom-right corner on the Google homepage).
Under Region Settings, choose United States.
Under Languages, choose English.
i tried everything. none of them working even. i installed multiple browsers all shows united states even brave, explorer.
You can use @jimaek geolocation-tool to determine the true location.
Once you have confirmed the true location, if certain websites are showing wrong location, please contact the support at the affected websites.
Hi,
You can request Google to fix IP geolocation issues: https://support.google.com/websearch/workflow/9308722?hl=en
If you have doubt about the accuracy of our reporting, please send me the IP address. I will take a look. Thank you!
— Abdullah | DevRel, IPinfo
PS C:\Users\Administrator\geolocation-tool> geolocate 85.155.188.137 --limit 50
Geolocating 85.155.188.137...
Note: A limit of 50 offers worse results. For better accuracy it is
recommended to set a limit of at least 100 probes. The higher the limit
the higher the accuracy. Best results start at 250.
Phase 1: Detecting continent...
Measuring from 30 probes...
[███████████████████████████████████████░] 96.7% 29/30 - Best: AS (186.99 ms)
Africa: 364.00 ms
Asia: 186.99 ms
Europe: 299.03 ms
North America: 211.26 ms
South America: 300.53 ms
Best continent: Asia (186.99 ms)
Phase 2: Detecting country...
Measuring from 50 probes...
[██████████████████████████████████████░░] 94.0% 47/50 - Best: SG (47.55 ms)
Singapore: 47.55ms
Japan: 98.94ms
Hong Kong: 134.03ms
Best country: Singapore (47.55ms)
Phase 3: Detecting city...
Measuring from 50 probes...
[████████████████████████████████████████] 100.0% 50/50 - Best: Singapore (92.49 ms)
Top 3 Locations:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────
1. Singapore, Singapore 92.49 ms
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SUMMARY
═══════════════════════════════════════════════════
Location: Singapore, Singapore, AS
Minimum Latency: 92.49 ms
Confidence: Low
i purchase a vps from hosthatch.com and i purchase sydney server but sadly it shows this result
@jimaek has “low” confidence in your server location.
HostHatch has similar networks in Singapore and Sydney, so that they could get confused.
Because Google doesn't rely only on the geofeed for location data. It's why sometimes you may have a Netherlands IP as reported by all geoip sites only for Google to default to Russian content.
You'll see this issue often with other providers too, it's not really their problem.
The NCR thing @MikeA posted looks neat, I was unaware of that. I've given up a Hosthatch Singapore VM as a personal VPN before because I got tired of Google Maps defaulting to Australia, sort of the opposite of OP's problem.