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Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic?

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Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? James Chin 6/7/12 1:27 PM This question relates to the Google front page when I go to http://www.google.com while logged in.  The Google front page is now being shown to me in Icelandic, and this is not correct.  I want it in English.  But, I can't find a preferences setting to chan
Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? James Chin 6/7/12 1:59 PM Nevermind, I figured it out.  I use multiple account sign-ins, and I had to log out both of those accounts, then log into only the one account that was having problems and then go to this link ( http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en ) to change the
Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? smurthygr 6/8/12 4:07 AM I strongly agree.  I suddenly find that my search results are in Hindi today.  I do not know Hindi and do not want my results in it.  What am I to do to revert to English?
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Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? 5280fornow 6/8/12 8:17 AM Thank you James,  I just posted a similar question and did not see your issue. This has fixed my problem perfectly. My chosen language was Portuguese -- cannot even imagine why that was since I have not been out of the US at all! I agree with what y
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Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? Autoboffin 6/8/12 8:53 PM Settle down! All the buttons on the page are suddenly in Korean. It might as well be Klingon. I have never been anywhere near Korea and as far as I know I have never opened a Korean webpage. How do you think I should proceed? Should I take several da
Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? Autoboffin 6/8/12 9:56 PM I have completely given up. I can find no further options to change. I am in New Zealand, I haven't been out of the country for years and this laptop has never left. My ISP is in New Zealand, my IP address checks out as in Auckland New Zealand, all t
Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? rajamal 6/9/12 2:26 AM So when I search from incognito mode in Google chrome, the search results are in Hindi. I am from India. But I don't know how to read Hindi. And I don't see any logical reason for this hindi language change to happen too. Is it not better to give the
Re: Why did my www.google.com page change to Icelandic? Autoboffin 6/11/12 3:23 AM Yesterday Google was in English again and I thought the problem had been fixed. I didn't change anything. But today it is back to Korean and of course I cannot even see what any of the settings are because I cannot read anything! What is going on???