google

[boobesque]

why is google.com redirecting to google.fr? its been doing it for a few days now. is google trying to teach us french?

[boobesque]

happens on internet explorer and firefox.
aol goes to google.com.

hmmm

[vehelpfulguy]

On the main Google page select preferences and make sure none of your settings there indicate you live in France or want the French version.

[THECORBYLOON]

C'est un slur f�tide!

[scatty mare]

C'est un myst�re! Le mien fonctionne tr�s bien.

[boobesque]

i dont actually have any google preferances, i just use the default google.com page, try it yourself, use internet explorer or firefox and go to google.com

[oldhamfan]

Just tried in Firefox on mine and it keeps defaulting to google.co.uk.. the plot thickens

[vehelpfulguy]

Boobesque, you DO have preferences, even if you do not know it.

Just to the right of the field where you put in the words you want to search on is a place where you can click on preferences.

Click on it and check what I said.

[Buenchico]

When you use Google, your IP address is detected and your query is automatically directed to the local version of Google. (That's why you'll often find UK firms near the top of the list, even though you didn't use a 'UK only' search).

The internet has suffered some major 'backbone' problems over the past few days. It seems that your ISP (or the company which supplies them with access) may have lost their normal access into the backbone. It sounds as if they're having to use a back-up plan and route all their traffic through a French proxy. This maintains your connection to the internet but fools Google into thinking that you're in France.

If checking your preferences doesn't work, I'd contact your ISP and ask them what's going on.

Chris

[camioneur]

if you set google .co.uk as your home instead of google.com you'll probably sort it

[boobesque]

its redirecting to .co.uk now.

about the preferences. i know that i have the ability to change them, but considering i never have and i clear cookies/browsing history/cache etc like every other day google should go to the default google page.

i am ashamed to say that i am on aol. for the past week or so the connection has been really bad so buenchico's answer makes a lot of sense.

now that it redirects to .co.uk maybe my connection will be better as aol may have sorted their problems.

thanks guys