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

[Peter Spotts]

On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 03:44 -0400, Justin Gruenberg wrote:
> 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.

Hmmm...up to now, I've been using Google off of Firefox's search field.
Something tells me a signed-in account is in my future...

With best regards,

Pete
-- 
Peter N. Spotts | Science reporter
The Christian Science Monitor
One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115 USA
Office: 617-450-2449 | Office-in-home: 508-520-3139
Email: pspotts at alum.mit.edu | Amateur-radio call: KC1JB
www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net

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