Google: Incorrect language settings

[Myles Braithwaite]

I always thought it made the redirection once and then cached that  
result because when I am in another country I still get redirected to  
google.ca.

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Myles Braithwaite
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On 22-Apr-08, at 5:59 PM, Jamon Camisso wrote:

> Had an interesting problem crop up with Google recently, seems  
> they're not totally on the ball when it comes to non-US networks and  
> their language redirection. Specifically, I've seen Teksavvy IP  
> addresses in the 69.196.138.0/24 range constantly being sent to  
> google.es with all results in Spanish.
>
> Hoping it doesn't take up to the month they say it might. Anyone  
> else seen this?
>
> Jamon
>
> Google Help wrote:
>> Hi Jamon,
>> Thank you for your note. We recently updated our location files and  
>> we
>> understand you're now being redirected to www.google.es. As you may  
>> know,
>> we normally redirect users in countries other than the United  
>> States from
>> Google.com to one of our country-specific sites (e.g. www.google.co.uk 
>>  for
>> Google UK) to provide easy access to country-specific search  
>> features.
>> We investigated the IP address you provided and have verified that  
>> we now
>> have the correct information on file for your location. In some  
>> instances,
>> it can take more than a month for these issues to be resolved.
>> In the meantime, if users would prefer to visit a domain other than  
>> the
>> one we're redirecting them to, they can set a bookmark for that  
>> specific
>> domain. To see a complete listing of international Google domains,  
>> please
>> visit http://www.google.com/language_tools We apologize for any  
>> inconvenience this has caused, and we appreciate your
>> patience.
>> Original Message Follows:
>> ------------------------
>> From: <snip>
>> Subject: Incorrect language settings
>> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:27:15 -0700
>> When using your search engine and suite of various services,  
>> addresses in the 69.196.138.0/24 range seem to be redirecting to  
>> google.es and changing language to Spanish. That is plainly not the  
>> case as Teksavvy (the isp) is in Ontario Canada.
>> phaedrus% whois 69.196.138.185
>> [Querying whois.arin.net]
>> [Redirected to rwhois.teksavvy.com:4321]
>> [Querying rwhois.teksavvy.com]
>> [rwhois.teksavvy.com]
>> %rwhois V-1.5:002010:00 rwhois.teksavvy.com (by Network Solutions,  
>> Inc.
>> V-1.5.9.5)
>> network:Auth-Area:.
>> network:Class-Name:network
>> network:IP-Network:69.196.138.0/24
>> network:Organization:TekSavvy Solutions Inc.
>> network:Street-Address:330 Richmond Street, Suite 205
>> network:Street-Address:Chatham, Ontario, N7M 1P7
>> network:Country-Code:CA
>> This is interfering with pretty much every client that connects to  
>> your service, Windows, Linux, OSX so if anyone can shed some light  
>> on the problem or change the settings for that /24 block that would  
>> be much
>> appreciated.
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