Google: Incorrect language settings

[Craig Routledge]

> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Giles Orr wrote:
> > If typing "www.google.com" actually gets you "www.google.com", you're
> > in a very small group in Canada.  I get redirected to "www.google.ca"
> > at home, at work, everywhere I've ever seen.

On 2008-04-23 14:11, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>     Same here. That's why I don't use Google's front page. I use a
>     local page with a form to call google.com with a search term. That
>     doesn't get redirected to google.ca; a bare "google.com" does.

When Google first started doing this, I found that bookmarking 
www.google.com/intl/en/ avoided redirects to specific countries.  It's 
worked for me ever since.

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