enkgok Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 For some strange reason all my browser wont let me add .com after google. Everytime I add .com at end of google it adds .se or se. Swedish and spainsh. I have tried it in firefox, explore, opera and others. Little confused. Is it a virus or setting on computer. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingwray Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 I believe that google redirects you to your national homepage depending on the location of your external IP. Its most likely that, don't you have a radio button on the homepage to select searching the whole web rather than location based? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 I believe that google redirects you to your national homepage depending on the location of your external IP. This can be negated by including a search as part of the url: http://www.google.ru/search?q=internet or even http://www.google.it/webhp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Doesn't google automatically redirect you based on either your country default language selected for your operating system, or two, when you go into google preferences, you can specify what language to search in by default. Is google the only site doing redirects? If so, go into the preferences in google and see whats selected. http://www.google.com/preferences? Select your language or country whatever and save changes. Also, check your hosts file. Maybe you did get some malware or something changed your default DNS servers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 http://www.google.com/ncr (thanks Cooper) Its not malware, google simply re-directs you to local services if you try to access google.com from non-US territory's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 It Checks two things: Your Location to your IP Address And if your browser gives out your language, that aswell (e.g. en-GB, en-US) For Me I get redirected from google.com to google.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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