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harveypooka
Dec 13, 2004, 09:09 AM
I always use google.com, but today I noticed that google.com redirects me
to my country's google, google.co.uk. Weird.



edesignuk
Dec 13, 2004, 09:20 AM
Just tried it, it's doing the same to me too. www.google.com -> www.google.co.uk

TBR
Dec 13, 2004, 09:20 AM
Thats handy.

Also there's a UK Froogle? Is that new?

nice one anyway!

wordmunger
Dec 13, 2004, 09:26 AM
Main differences: No froogle link on homepage, option to search UK only pages. Anything I'm missing?

Oddly, I don't get redirected to Google.com when I search google.co.uk.

Rocksaurus
Dec 14, 2004, 01:21 AM
HA! Google's been doing that to me for years. I type in "google.com" and it forwards me to the US site. :cool:

russed
Dec 14, 2004, 03:29 AM
wow how random, yet when i still use the searchy thingy in camino it still takes me to the .com site!

iJoe
Dec 14, 2004, 03:49 AM
Also there's a UK Froogle? Is that new?

It's been going for perhaps a couple of months. This is the first time it's had a link from the homepage, though.

Lz0
Dec 14, 2004, 05:04 AM
Google has been doing that to AU users for a long tome now.

The "i" and the "o" are to close tigether on my keyboard.

AmigoMac
Dec 14, 2004, 07:53 AM
it was doing the same for me with google.com to google.de and the same with the news site but I deleted the cookies and everything came as before, Safari & Camino work with google.com but Firefox with google.de and the results are different... and now there is something really odd, my friend at work and I were looking the same thing on google, I was with my iBook and Safari, he has a PC and Firefox, same search but different results, the first page I got was his 6th , we deleted cookies but was still different... :eek: , he said loud to me: "Möchtest du mich verarschen oder was?" :mad:

_pb_boi
Dec 14, 2004, 08:40 AM
Meh,

Google has done that to me for ages. I get redirected to Irish Google, German Google and / or Swedish Google.

For about a year, maybe more, now.

andy.