Google Thai/hk

[monsieurhappy]

Using TT&T ADSL I get frequent disconnections. Usually I'm reconnected after a few seconds but when I go to the Mozilla browser which has Google as default, this has changed from Google Thai to Google Hong Kong. The Hong Kong version is in Chineese and if I try to make a search I find the search pages different to that of a search on the Thai format. Is this normal? Does this happen to everyone?

[londonthai]

probably you downloaded mozilla from a Hong Kong re-direction that's why.

probably in tools/options/general you will be able to change your home from google.hk to google.th

[guardian]

BTW, do you know you could go to the main google homepage in english not targetting any particular country by simply adding a " /ncr " without the quotes after the home page?

www.google.com/ncr

[monty]

And with Guardian's tip, it will get stored in a cookie and you'll never see the Thai or Hongkong version anymore, even when going to the firefox version of google (standard homepage on firefox)!

A bit strange though how you ended up at the Hong Kong version since Google uses your IP address to decide which version to serve you...

[monsieurhappy]

Monty, I always seemed to get the Hong Kong version after a de-connection. I put it down to TT&T having trouble connecting through CAT. Anyway, I have now used Guardian's tip.

[Farma]

I'm curious about this too. I'm currently using a connection via Dubai yet Google gives me the Thai site to search from. It doesn't worry me as I click on the english button when the Google search page opens.

I wonder if it has something to do with the Thai version of XP and Office I have installed rather than the IP address.

[friend2]

A long time ago my "Google homepage" was always going to google.com, or the international/English page.

When I tried to use some ssl services it never worked.

I thought it was strange as my friend was always redirected to the google.co.th site, even if typing google.com in his browser.

It turned out to be a virus, having a hidden hosts file on my system.

After cleaning it out, everything went back to normal, and ssl started working to.