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Old 12-08-2008, 02:25 PM  
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Originally Posted by emjay View Post
This is why we hone in on the surfer's country/language, based on a combination of maxmind's IP and browser language algorythms eg "click to enter" on:
You don't need any geolocation software to do that. You simply take the browser's language preference from apache's HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE setting. No algorithm needed

Language-localised ads are a must imo. Geo-localising anything is pointless if you aren't displaying the text in the user's preferred language.
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