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drmaster

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 01:10 Post subject: Google take me to wrong country ???	Quick Quote Quote

First it all begans with google.com redirect me to google.uk It has been fix and it take me to google.com but When I enter keywords for a typical search, the reults and sponsor links come back for pages in UK and Europe in general. Where can I change this localization? I'm in the US

panzieman

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 01:50 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I think you can change it under language tools, it's on the right side.

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kumkss

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 01:57 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

yeah, you have to change your "country" in the control panel.

drmaster

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 02:51 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Under my account Personal information Home Country: United States Under Language tools, there is no country options. Only english NOT U.S or U.K.

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 04:23 Post subject:

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 04:30 Post subject: Re: Google take me to wrong country ???

drmaster wrote:

First it all begans with google.com redirect me to google.uk
It has been fix and it take me to google.com but
When I enter keywords for a typical search, the reults and sponsor links come back for
pages in UK and Europe in general. Confused

Where can I change this localization? I'm in the US

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drmaster

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 06:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

This has been going on for little more than month and it's getting my nerve.

swingman

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 13:39 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I think this has to do with some kind of profiling done by Google. Based on something you may have clicked on in the past the super-smart boys at Goog may have determined that you are (ugh ) a European. That info may be stored along with your IP and everytime you visit the site it forwards you to the euro-version. Every time I log out of hotmail for some reason it forwards me to the msn.co.za site. It gets irritating but hey, you get to learn all kinds of strange new things.

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Thundie

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Posted: Sat, 18th Nov 2006 16:27 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

The IP itself says where we come from

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TiHKAL

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Posted: Mon, 20th Nov 2006 16:28 Post subject:

Thundie wrote:

The IP itself says where we come from

Exactly. If you load up tor, you will get all kinds of weird google pages. Do you have a foreign proxy?

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