Off-topic Google question...but desparation has set in ;-)

Justin Gruenberg justin.gruenberg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 07:44:21 UTC 2007


On 10/14/07, Peter Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Sorry to raise this here, but I wasn't sure where else to turn...I'm on
> a business trip in the Netherlands, and am running my laptop from a
> hotel with broadband. But the only version of Google I can get (and I
> use it heavily) is in Dutch, which, sad to say, is not my main language.
> Is there any way I can get the English version? Whenever I try for
> Google.com, it automatically shifts me to Google.nl. I've been using
> Yahoo's search engine, which doesn't default to Dutch here. But it would
> be nice to get the English version of Google back again, if possible...
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete
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Are you signed into google?  I'd imagine localization would travel
with your account.




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