{"id":5423,"date":"2020-05-27T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/?p=5423"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:21:17","slug":"google-thinks-im-at-barnard-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/2020\/05\/27\/google-thinks-im-at-barnard-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does Google think I&#8217;m at Barnard Castle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"external\" title=\"This link will open in a new window or tab\" href=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/gallery\/screengrab\/Screenshot_20200527_133952_marked.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/gallery\/screengrab\/Screenshot_20200527_133952_marked.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"680\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In fact, I am 416 kilometres away from Barnard Castle, as the crow flies, or about 500km by road. Granted, I very seldom use Google as a search engine. I use privacy-aware searches instead such as DuckDuckGo. I have also been to great lengths to prise my rooted smartphone from Google&#8217;s clutches too. But my PC connects via a permanent IP address that hasn&#8217;t moved location for 8 years! Last time I <em>personally<\/em> went anywhere near Barnard Castle was back in 2001.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" title=\"This link will open in a new window or tab\" href=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/gallery\/screengrab\/Screenshot_20200527_134211.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/wp-content\/gallery\/screengrab\/Screenshot_20200527_134211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I honestly haven&#8217;t made this up. This is a full-screen grab, unedited, captured 13:42 UTC today. What is going on here? Some elaborate new defence for Cummings, i.e. &#8220;<em>I wasn&#8217;t really there, Google got it wrong<\/em>&#8220;, perhaps? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>In any event, let&#8217;s hope and pray that Google&#8217;s coronavirus tracking app is a little more accurate than this, eh? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, I am 416 kilometres away from Barnard Castle, as the crow flies, or about 500km by road. Granted, I very seldom use Google as a search engine. I use privacy-aware searches instead such as DuckDuckGo. I have also been to great lengths to prise my rooted smartphone from Google&#8217;s clutches too. 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