Google.com redirecting to Google.co.jp (or other languages)
I had a weird problem with Google this week at work where Google thought that I was in Japan and therefore redirected me to Google.co.jp. It was working fine for me during the morning, but all of a sudden every search I did took me to Google.co.jp and returned results in Japanese. This happened for at least two other people in the office.
It started when someone complained that his Google was defaulting to Japan. We didn’t think much of it because he recently lived in Japan for 6 years and his wife is Japanese, so we thought it might have been cookied or set on his computer somehow. When it started happening to the rest of us we knew something was up.
It didn’t just happen with Google Search either, my Google Reader was also affected, which I run through Prism, so it couldn’t have been affected by me FireFox settings.
To fix it, all we needed to do was goto http://www.google.com/ncr which seems to reset the localisation and brought us back to www.google.com.
Has anyone else had this problem and you worked out the cause? We don’t run any proxies and the IP address we were using resolved to a Brisbane data center, so I’m a bit lost.
Comments
I ended up with the same
Submitted by Zyrixqi (not verified) on Friday, November 28, 2008 at 10:36pm.
I ended up with the same problem thanks for the fix, Now i have to look at the source code for http://www.google.com/ncr to figure out what it does to reset the google website. I am just a home user, maybe by figuring out what the http://www.google.com/ncr page does to do the reset I can find out what information was changed in the first place and track down the cause that way. I will get back to you within a couple weeks when I have time to read through the page source code.
google.co.jp
Submitted by jennhoney (not verified) on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 6:04pm.
Thanks for the fix! I was quite flustered this morning when both of my computers started routing to google.co.jp I couldn't figure out how to reset or why it was being misdirected and I was having trouble remembering what I did B.G. (Before Google)
google.com/ncr only
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 7:38pm.
google.com/ncr only temporarily fixed it for me
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This just started happening
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 12:19pm.
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