My freaking browser keeps changing Google.com to google.com.tw! Anyway around this? :help:
www.google.com.tw should have a link to the proper one anyway
Moaman, when at google.com, take the link called “Preferences”
Change the interface language to english, then save the preferences, close the browser and retry, solved it for me anyway.
[quote]Maoman, when at google.com, take the link called “Preferences”
Change the interface language to English, then save the preferences, close the browser and retry, solved it for me anyway.[/quote]
That’s what I did, but when I type in www.google.com.au. Almost the same thing I guess… but annoying nonetheless.
At least on the .tw site, it has a link below-right of the input box, “Google.com in English”. If you click that, it will set a cookie that will prevent them from redirecting you.
I don’t know what to do about the google.com.au site – maybe they’ll have a link allowing you to set a cookie to get google.com in American. 
Delete all cookies stored on your computer.
www.google.ca
you are Canadian!
Look for Google in English, to the right of the search box.
[quote=“robi666”]Delete all cookies stored on your computer.[/quote]O think it does use a cookie to say which version of google you used last. But it defaults to the Taiwan site if it sees you’re accessing it from Taiwan. So deleting your google cookie would send you back to the Taiwan site.
set your start up page to google.co.uk - that’ll stop the nonsense
To fix the problem check your browser preferences. Make sure that the top language for pages is English (Tools - options(O) - Language (L). If you are using a chinese version of windows the default will be Chinese(Tw), you should add English and set it to the top of the list, this will mean that any page that redirects for language prefs. will direct you to English from then on.
I dont think google does the redirection because of your language settings or by the country you access it from. I never got send to a diffrent language version of google than i adressed.
Maybe the browser you use just sucks.
[quote=“robi666”]I don’t think google does the redirection because of your language settings or by the country you access it from. I never got send to a diffrent language version of google than i adressed.
Maybe the browser you use just sucks.[/quote]
It does redirect based on the IP it detects you using, which it then translates to what country you’re in. You’re right about it not using the language setting though.
[quote=“miltownkid”][quote=“robi666”]I don’t think google does the redirection because of your language settings or by the country you access it from. I never got send to a diffrent language version of google than i adressed.
Maybe the browser you use just sucks.[/quote]
It does redirect based on the IP it detects you using, which it then translates to what country you’re in. You’re right about it not using the language setting though.[/quote]
Uh, then why did it solve the problem for me then?
dump that pig of a browser you’re using.
but first install a new browser.
go to www.mozilla.com and download firefox for the operating system yer running.
enjoy
Microsoft gnomes. Duh? :loco:
Really, I’m can’t be sure what happened with your PC, but I just tried your method (I first deleted the cookies, added English put it on top and then reloaded google) on mine and it didn’t work. But I have been wrong in the past, I’m almost 100% sure it’s totally based on cookies (yum!) and IP addresses. Unless you set your page to the link BigFluffyStyle posted earlier ( www.google.com/ncr) you’re going to get redirected. I think I read somewhere the the ncr means No Country Redirect.
If I am again mistaken, I pre-apologize. 
I just thought of something. Proof that it knows where you are, even when in English mode it has a link to google Taiwan.
[quote=“monkbucket”]dump that pig of a browser you’re using.
but first install a new browser.
go to www.mozilla.com and download firefox for the operating system yer running.
enjoy[/quote]
I have firefox, but the school p.c doesn’t.
[quote=“monkbucket”]dump that pig of a browser you’re using.
but first install a new browser.
go to www.mozilla.com and download firefox for the operating system yer running.
enjoy[/quote]
You also need to keep Javascript turned off (at least I think so - I noticed the problem went away when I killed Javascript). Anyway, I always keep Javascript off except when the occasional web site just refuses to work without it.
regards,
Robert
The first time I accessed google with my computer it took me to the .tw site. I clicked the ‘google in english’ button and I’ve never had the problem since. Is this because I’m using Netscape instead of Internet Ex-we’ll-make-all-your-decisions-for-you-plorer?
No probs here with Opera, goes to the English page everytime.