Earlier quoted context omitted.
go to www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect) and it won't redirect you any more.
Not working for me. I still get redirected to google.co.th
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What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
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Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#32I still think the correct answer is "Google.com webpage appears."
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What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all my accounts specifying one and only default language.
It will do so even if I explicitly type google.de, google.nl or google.fr. Whatever language I expect or want, I will get a different one.
This makes me suspect all requests to google.com are routed through a routine with the name "because_fuck_you()".
To add insult to injury, this does not just affect the UI language, but also the content, functionality and sometimes even navigation, and not always in the straightforward relationship between language and content you may expect.
And I'm not even one of those poor souls that lives in a multilingual country...
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#34I mentioned the gethostbyname call during an interview with this question. The interviewer reminded me that gethostbyname was deprecated and we had a short discussion about the recently discovered vulnerability in the glibc implementation of it.
It has been obsoleted in favour of getnameinfo. (The vulnerability in glibc has been fixed.)
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#35What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all my accounts specifying one and only default language. It will do so even if I explicitly type google.de, google.nl or google.fr. Whatever language I expect or want, I will get a different one. This makes me suspect all requests to google.com are routed through a routine with t…
Living in trilingual country here. I suggest u to try google.com/ncr to get English google wherever you are in the world.
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#36I still think the correct answer is "Google.com webpage appears."
There is no "correct" answer. Explanation is multifaceted: explanations of one kind are grounded-in or reduce-to or supervene on explanations of another kind. Each kind of explanation explains different things.
There might be a "final" explanation in the sense that we talk about quarks, strings, etc. - an explanation which doesnt explain very much but is irreducible.
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#37Also a great read, "Dizzying but invisible depth" by Jean-Baptiste Quéru
https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe
Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#38What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all my accounts specifying one and only default language. It will do so even if I explicitly type google.de, google.nl or google.fr. Whatever language I expect or want, I will get a different one. This makes me suspect all requests to google.com are routed through a routine with t…
Checking only with curl here, they seem to respect the "Accept-Language" header. Have you had a look at the requests that are being sent?
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#39Re: What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
#40What happens is that Google decides to show me the Google search engine in exactly the language I did not want, despite all my settings on all my accounts specifying one and only default language. It will do so even if I explicitly type google.de, google.nl or google.fr. Whatever language I expect or want, I will get a different one. This makes me suspect all requests to google.com are routed through a routine with t…
Living in trilingual country here. I suggest u to try google.com/ncr to get English google wherever you are in the world.
I use https://encrypted.google.com/ which lets me stay on the english version.