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In United States, like in most countries, people think of the Internet as being a global village with no borders, no laws and no boundaries. While this new frontier may bring many benefits, it is not an environment that instills trust or a sense of security. To those contemplating online purchases it can be downright frightening, and at least a significant deterrent to purchase. Geobytes content localization technology suppresses that fear by making the viewer feel at home.

No doubt one of the best ways to sell your message, products and services online is to customize the content on your web site in a way that will appeal to your visitors. An Internet user in New York is more likely to make an online purchase from a local supplier in New York than from an unknown entity in a foreign land. In this sense a local supplier is not just one that is physically located in the user's city, but one that services the locals of that city.
Web Developer - Dave

Simple Solutions

Geobytes has been providing IP Localization solutions since 1999, and is one of, if not the oldest provider in the industry. Leveraging off this experience we have refined and developed our solutions to meet the needs of the industry. Our most tried and tested, and for that matter, most popular solutions are naturally enough, also the simplest. Take our JavaScript based GeoDirection service - it is now used on tens of thousands of web sites across the net and can fetch and set an array of JavaScript variables to the browser's location in a single line of code -

<script language="Javascript" src="http://gd.geobytes.com/gd?after=-1&variables=GeobytesCountry,GeobytesCity"></script>

or our IP Locator Service that can set a PHP variable to the browser's location in single line of code -

print_r(get_meta_tags('http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation&template=php3.txt&IpAddress=38.107.179.236'));

or our database solution where you can download and install our IP Location database - GeoNetMap in to you MySql database with a single script:

mkdir geobytes
cd geobytes
curl http://forums.geobytes.com/downloads/geonetmaploader.tar > geonetmaploader.tar 
tar -xvf geonetmaploader.tar
./install.sh

While our competitors may try to make it sound complicated to justify elevated prices, our years of experience tell us to keep it simple and affordable.

Getting Started

The first two solutions listed above - GeoDirection and our IP Locator Service provide a free mode which allows you to implement, evaluate, and start using them straight away. When your requirements exceed that of the free access mode, then you can purchase "pay as you go access" via our Mapbytes micro-payment system. (Access works out at around $1 per thousand look-ups.)

With regards to the third solution - GeoNetMap - Licenses start from US$500 (up to 10,000 look ups per day) and includes all database updates for 12 months. Once you have completed your purchase then our system will send you an email containing your access credentials, which you can then use to download the entire GeoNetMap data set. GeoNetMap is the raw IP Address Location data, you don't need any special software components to access it - just import it as you would any other data and then use standard SQL queries to access it. Of of course we provide you with sample scripts and queries, but it is up to you as to whether you use them or not.