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SEO



Joined: 14/10/2008 18:58:20
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As I noticed the great speed of the server(s) and the possibility to freely download gigs of geoname data and even using an only service to query location data I was wondering how all of this is financed / provided with hosting.

I would almost think that Google is behind all of this when I look at the perfect speed of the servers.
marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
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Hi SEO

Thanks for the compliments. Be reassured we are completely indenpendent from google.

GeoNames is financed with Donations and with some commercial services:
http://www.geonames.org/donations.html
http://www.geonames.org/commercial-webservices.html

Best

Marc

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