google has ip redirection

from spain canīt go to google.com

[helenp]

Incredible,
I live in Spain.
I always check my site in google.com though the english homepage is our main site....

No way, I write google.com and gets redirected to google.es...
cleaned cookies and everything.
What to do, and why they doing that.

[mars9820]

there is a button under the searchbar.

Saying GOOGLE IN ENGLISH.

This will bring you back to google.com

However I do agree with you that this is highly annoying from Google. Esspecially when you travel around and you are forced to download fonts from languages you don't even want to read.

By the way everytime when you delete your cookies you will end up on the country site again and you have to manually go to the english google.

[helenp]

thanks, didnīt thought about that.
This is new, didnīt have problem to go to google.se

[victor]

A similar problem used to happen a lot to me when using an ISP with dynamic IP addresses.

I'd get randomly shunted to all sorts of versions of Google.

I think enough people complained, and they made the geo-sensing more conservative.

But obviously not good enough.

[helenp]

For several days when got google in spanish, i clicked on go to google in english and it worked.

But today, incredible, there are no way,
when clicking on go to google in english it gets redirected to google.es again........

[mars9820]

[google.com...]

I think NCR stands for NO COUNTRY REDIRECT

Or you can start your searches in the toolbar and they will go to google.com directly.

By the way the deskbar is also a very good tool and even doesn't ask you to open a browser to search :)

[geekay]

Another solution, that works for me at least, is to bookmark and always use the Advanced Search in English (hl=en):
[google.com...]

[helenp]

strange,
Didnīt work though I had coockie control on,
switch it off and know it works..?

[kaled]

A certain well-known firewall can block cookies. When I was staying with my sister, she'd messed up the settings to try to block popups but had in fact blocked cookies instead, causing some rather strange effects. Might be worth checking firewall settings - might also be worth checking for spyware etc.

Kaled.