12. A computer implemented method for estimating a country where a client computer is configured to operate, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, configuration information from the client computer about the client computer, wherein the configuration information does not expressly identify the country, wherein the configuration information comprises time configuration information and language configuration information; and at the server, estimating the country where the client computer is configured to operate, wherein the estimating comprises the server applying country estimation programming to the received configuration information to derive the country, wherein the receiving and estimating are done automatically by the server without human intervention, wherein the country estimation programming comprises a rule engine implemented by rule programming, the rule engine comprising a set of rules, a processing relationship between rules in the set of rules, and a recursive rule program that processes each rule in the set of rules until the estimate of the country is derived.
12. A computer implemented method for estimating a country where a client computer is configured to operate, the method comprising: receiving, at a server, configuration information from the client computer about the client computer, wherein the configuration information does not expressly identify the country, wherein the configuration information comprises time configuration information and language configuration information; and at the server, estimating the country where the client computer is configured to operate, wherein the estimating comprises the server applying country estimation programming to the received configuration information to derive the country, wherein the receiving and estimating are done automatically by the server without human intervention, wherein the country estimation programming comprises a rule engine implemented by rule programming, the rule engine comprising a set of rules, a processing relationship between rules in the set of rules, and a recursive rule program that processes each rule in the set of rules until the estimate of the country is derived. 13. The method of claim 12 further comprising: retrieving data from a storage based on the estimated country; and sending the retrieved data to the client computer.