Getting around Google IP redirections

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perlbloke

Beginner

Posts: 1

Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Wednesday, October 4th 2006, 6:56pm

Getting around Google IP redirections

It's always the same problem: I want to google for something, then the infamous Google IP redirection kicks in and I land on google.de.
As it so happens, I live in Germany and I'm registered with a German ISP (Alice). But I prefer Google's UK version. I've got the option to change my language settings in Google so that I'm redirected to the American version but I neither want my interface to be in German nor do I want to see any -ize endings, any `colors', `neighbors' or whatever.
My locales are all set to `en_UK', my KDE interface is in British English, my browser identification string is `Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Linux i686; en_GB, en_AU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0' (specifically for Google).
I also have the possibility to bookmark google.co.uk which does miraculously indeed take me to the British version but I happen to prefer to enter my search terms in the quick search bar on the upper right hand corner of my Konqueror window, which, you might have guessed it already, takes me to google.de or google.com, depending on my language settings there. That's the URL for the quick search: `http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=\{@}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8'.
I use Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 with KDE version 3.5.2.

I would really appreciate if anyone could point me into the right direction to solving this nuisance.

TIA

perlbloke

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col

Beginner

Posts: 9

Thursday, October 5th 2006, 3:24am

RE: Getting around Google IP redirections

I'm interested in this too, as I use tor, and often the exit node is in Germany.

What I found out is that if you do specify google.co.uk, your query should come back from there. Google should only redirect if you go to google.com, then it will redirect to your local country. I tested this by creating my own web search shortcuts going to google.de, google.co.uk and google.co.jp, and the answers were apparently returned by the respective local servers. So I'm also at a loss as why you are seeing a redirect when you specifically put google.co.uk.

I don't know if it will help, but you might try adding "&hl=en-gb" to your query string.

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