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  2. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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    Click any recent activity entry to view its IP address as well as the date and time it was collected. If one is drastically different from the others, remove it and change your password. Be aware that there are some legitimate reasons why your history can show unfamiliar locations, such as your mobile device detecting the wrong location or ...

  3. W3C Geolocation API - Wikipedia

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    Location is detected based on the nearest public IP address on a device (which can be a computer, the router it is connected to, or the Internet Service Provider (ISP) the router uses). The location depends on the IP information available, but in many cases where the IP is hidden behind an ISP network address translation , the accuracy is only ...

  4. Internet geolocation - Wikipedia

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    These databases typically contain IP address data, which may be used in firewalls, ad servers, routing, mail systems, websites, and other automated systems where a geolocation may be useful. An alternative to hosting and querying a database is to obtain the country code for a given IP address through a DNSBL-style lookup from a remote server.

  5. Geotargeting - Wikipedia

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    While IP address spoofing is harder and more reliable than user-agent spoofing, it is also harder to keep the list of IP addresses used by search engines for their crawlers up-to-date. An outdated list of active crawler IP addresses enables the search engines to detect cloaking and may result in a removal of the site from the search engine's index.

  6. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    AOL Search offers you a Search History feature that keeps track of your searches for 30 days. Search History helps you get back to your previous search results faster; however, if you wish to keep your search private, you can clear your history. To clear your Search History, click on the History drop-down arrow and then click the Clear link ...

  7. Enable location settings on Android devices - AOL Help

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    To get these personalized features, first turn on the location settings for your device, then allow the AOL app or a mobile browser (like Firefox or Chrome) access to your current location. 1.From your home screen, tap Settings. 2. Tap Apps. 3. Tap an app. 4. Tap Permissions. 5. Tap the Toggle button next to "Location" to enable to disable. 6.

  8. WHOIS - Wikipedia

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    Additional options may allow control of the port number to connect on, displaying additional debugging data, or changing recursion/referral behavior. Like most TCP/IP client–server applications, a WHOIS client takes the user input and then opens an Internet socket to its destination server. The WHOIS protocol manages the transmission of the ...

  9. Troubleshoot a broadband internet connection - AOL Help

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    These suggestions are designed to help with broadband connections only. If you don't have broadband, you'll need to try other steps to fix problems with a dial-up internet connection.