I am setting up targeting for our networks, and would like Canadian clients to have specific targeted ads, which Google bases off of IP address.
I, however, am in the States, and don't know how I can test this.
Is anyone aware of a solution?
AdSense Preview Tool
To test AdSense ads targetted for a geographical region outside of your current region, you need to download and install the AdSense Preview Tool (it is actually a registry setting. I believe you also need to have the Google Toolbar installed).
Google AdSense Preview Tool
Information about the preview tool (including how to preview ads targetted for other geographical regions) can be found here:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?topic=160
A couple of third party web based tools:
AdSense Sandbox 1.0
Khrido AdSense Tool
AdWords Preview Tool
To preview AdWords ads targetted for other geographical regions, log into your Google Adwords account (adwords.goolge.com), and then do the following:
Tools > Ads Preview Tool
Enter your keyword, select Google.ca as your domain, Country as Canada, and click the Preview Ad button.
Here is the direct url you can use (this is for the search query "Stack Overflow"):
http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&host=google.ca&q=stack%20overflow&adtest=on&gl=CA&gr=&gcs=
Perhaps you can try finding a proxy server that resides in Canada.
A proxy server, is a server that you connect to. It sits between you and any sites you want to visit. So when say Google gets a request, it'll see the IP of the proxy (which is Canadian), and not your US IP address.
I found this site, but I havn't tested it out yet, but give it a try if you wish:
Free Canadian Proxy. They have three Canadian proxies.
A free proxy to view the site if the site is available outside of your network. Just set your browser proxy to a Canadian one. If you're behind a proxy already it'll be a pain though.
Update: in fact there is a Canadian one #3 on that list!
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I created a free service that permits to control a French set-top box (which provides different services like TV, playing media, Netflix, …).
This set-top is a 3rd party product for me because I do not own the material, but because the constructor provides an API I've been able to create a service from end-to-end that controls the box. The box provider doesn't have any service published on Google to control their box and they do not plan to do it in the future.
I tested everything with my own Google Home account and everything is working fine. I'd now like to deploy/publish my service to all my users in Google Home… While I'm filling all the steps to publish my project, it's asking me to complete a form (Smart Home Certification form), but at the top of the form it says: “if your action is non-commercial (personal/hobby project) or you are implementing only the SCENE trait, do not submit the form.”
My action is non-commercial (it's a free service) and I'm maintaining it on my personal time (hobby project), so I'm not supposed to submit the form. But if I don't, then I cannot have my service published/deployed?!
Is it possible to publish a Smart Home Action without being a company that sells products/pays a developer to maintain the service?
For your information, I already published an Alexa Skill for this service 1 year ago and it works very well. I was waiting for Google to publish the Channel trait in French to release it. Right now I have to ask my users to create applets in IFTTT to make the service works with Google, which is not optimal and very painful…
I tried to reach to the ha-certification Google team but no answer after 2 weeks… So maybe someone in the community would already have experimented the same case as me!
Thanks
After sending emails around, I finally got an answer from a Google employee:
due to our new policies, we are now not launching any partners who are not tied to commercial products
I have been experimenting with Google Smart Home and the protocol flow looks very clear for me. In summary:
action.devices.SYNC - sent by Google Smart Home to fulfillment service to find out the available devices
action.devices.EXECUTE - sent by Google Smart Home to fulfillment service to execute a certain action on a device
On the smartphone/tablet, the customer can place a device in a certain location. This allows him to ask questions such as Turn everything in my office off. Internally, Google Smart Home knows which devices are located in the office, and sends a action.devices.EXECUTE action for each device in the office subsequently, as explained above.
I am now wondering about the following: is it possible to retrieve the configured locations/rooms in the fulfillment service also? Is this information exposed and available to retrieve?
It is not possible to receive information about a user's home layout through the Home Graph API. When the user gives a command like "Turn everything in my office off", you may get several OnOff commands in your fulfillment, although you will have no way of knowing the original query.
I have two-step authentication on facebook. I just tried to log in from my home PC but didn't write second step code.
I've got notification that somebody (me) was trying to login to my account and location was so precise (within 2 meters).
I wondered how facebook detects location so precisely only based on IP?
Today geolocation is in the core business of Marketing companies, there's a very developped market of customer data, so tons of mobile apps and services collect data such as usual IP addresses, personal information, interests, locations.
That information gets reselled to data brokers, aggregated, corrected. And then Facebook or others can buy that data, merge it, implement corrections and so and get tables for matching IPs and locations that are not public, it seems.
However they offer a high level API to perform market targeting which seems to use that data:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/buying-api/targeting#location
In your case it was precise because they may have a good dataset based on your privacy settings experience, not only with facebook but with other geo-located apps. In my case their guess is wrong by hundreds of Km, because I was behind a corporate proxy.
How is a location determined when showing restricted posts from a page's wall?
Here is the configuration option I am talking about (on a page's settings page)
My scenario is: I have a sever based in the UK which is using the user's auth token to show posts which are gated. Obviously I would like US based users to see these posts.
Will it take into account
My server's IP address?
The location the user has specified on their profile?
The IP the user used to sign up with? --- or something else?
To clarify I have set my location in my profile to be a place in the US, but don't see the posts (when calling the API, or when just viewing the page)
Also, when I log into my UK based account from the US, I still don't see the posts (from API, or from just viewing the page)
Oddly enough, when logged in from the US server, Facebook asks me to validate my account and suggests a UK based mobile number (+44) - could be related to the fact I signed up from the UK?
I have no way of creating an account that is US based because I don't have a US based mobile I can verify with.
I've been doing some testing on this.
I'm in Spain but wanted to see a page I'd restricted to UK only.
I set my current location and home town to London: Did not work
I verified my UK phone (roaming): Did not work
Used a VPN service (hidemyass) to give me a UK IP: Did not work
With the account set like that, no other changes. I called a mate and got him to login to the account in the UK and the page became visible.
So can assume that settings of the account do not affect, and that FB are detecting VPN based traffic - maybe from database list of datacentre IP addresses.
And that it uses a (non-datacentre) IP address detection to determine if you are in this country. Also follows that if you travel abroad you won't be able to see content even if you do "live" in that country. I'm guess if you 'like' the page, then travel you would still be able to see it.
What is google apps and why are so many startup companies using it?
Google Apps is a collection of business software components delivered as a service, saving you from having to install Exchange, Office and the usual business stuff. Plus Google Apps allows people to write their own apps and install them on Google's servers. A lot of companies use Google Apps for email and calendering instead of Exchange these days. It saves costs.
One useful feature of Google apps is that it allows you to use the gmail interface to host email on google's servers for your own domain. So you can send/recieve email with an #example.com address (if your startup was called example.com).
Unlike many apps, the Google Business Apps are intuitive. Calendars, email, file sharing, contacts, and more are simple to use and will work virtually on any internet connected device.
basic benefits of google apps are -
1. It is Cost Efficient - For only $5 a month, you will receive email addresses for your team with your company's name, 30 GB storage you can use for file storage and sharing, online calendars, and the ability to easily create online spreadsheets, slides, text documents, and more. All these great features including admin controls and security from a name you can trust. If you prepay for a year you will actually save $10.
Security - The company is FISMA-Moderate level certified -- this is the same level of certification for the internal email usage within the United State's government. Google is also capable of supporting HIPAA compliance. Google is trusted by millions to virtually secure their email from any threats through routinely checking emails before downloading a document for any threats of viruses, pshing emails, malware and more.
User friendly and intutive interface.
Google Apps are...
“A set of intelligent apps including Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Calendar to connect the people in your company, no matter where in the world they are.”
Source: https://gsuite.google.com/together/
Examples: Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Hangouts, Google Slides, Google Spreadsheets - those are all web-based applications ("apps").
G Suite is the name given by Google for their collection of applications. Formerly named “Google Apps for Work” and “Google Apps for Your Domain”, G Suite is resource implemented by I.T. Administrators, to enable access to Google Apps, through a domain (and their aliases).
For Example: Rather than using your standard Gmail address (username#gmail.com), users in a business or organization would login to access those web-apps using an email address with their own domain, like (username#example.com).
The interface is the same as for standard Google Account holders, yet G Suite admins have the ability to add some branding, and control features - through the G Suite Admin Console.
I'm going to stop here before this post starts to resemble a pitch - let's just say that I really enjoy the fact that my workplace has implemented G Suite for our organization - it has made my duties, that much easier!