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

Chris Malton chrism at cjsoftuk.dyndns.org
Sun Oct 14 08:19:38 UTC 2007


No problems!

Glad I could help!

Chris

Peter Spotts wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 09:10 +0100, Chris Malton wrote:
>> Google will automagically redirect to the native language of the country 
>> you are in if you go to google.com
>>
>> Going to google.co.uk or similar will make the language "stick"
>>
>> I know that's a bit problematic, but .co.uk might be your best bet.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Peter Spotts 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
> 
> Thanks...funny spellings there, but at least I can read it!  ;-)
> 
> Pete





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