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Re: Google/Yahoo - Geo-Location Issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sun Nov 23 09:28:28 2008

From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:28:13 +0100
In-Reply-To: <49270186.8080301@csuohio.edu> (Michael Holstein's message of
	"Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:22 -0500")
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

* Michael Holstein:

>> they should just forget about this geolocation crap and just do it in
>> english, unless specificed otherwise (for example, by going to
>> www.google.de instead of google.com), 
>
> They do, albeit not directly ... www.google.com/ncr

This doesn't work anymore, AFAICT.  I get a redirect to the German
homepage, serving results for the German market.


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