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

[Felix 'buebo' Kakrow]

Am 14.10.07 09:37 schrieb Peter Spotts <pspotts at alum.mit.edu>:
> 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...

When I set English as my prefered language in my firefox options, I get the
english version of google, no matter I'm in Germany.

This should work wherever you are.

Sincerely
Felix

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