| Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Not from Norway | 6/10/12 7:23 AM | Whoever gets to read this, I am sorry but: Starting a few days ago, no matter what computer I use, Google insists I read norwegian. I don't know if its because I have a nordic name or whatever. I can temporarily "fix" it by deleting cookies but as |
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| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Not from Norway | 6/10/12 1:57 PM | Ah typical internet elitist reply. If only it were that easy. Thanks for the comparison to a baby. No, no bib required. Changing that setting does nothing for this problem. Tried that most obvious one first. Besides, its strange. The location on |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Creep3k | 6/10/12 5:14 PM | Almost the same shit is happening to me, but it keeps changing to russian! That is annoying as shit and kind of mean from google, as Latvia was being raped by russians for years and still is! Also poll for russian language as the secondary language o |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Bakgodek11 | 6/10/12 7:59 PM | Same problem here, but mine is translating into Romanian. I havent' touched the settings at all, and it randomly started acting up. I've never even been to Romania. Tried changing location and all that stuff in the Preferences section, but no luck in |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Jessica S. | 6/10/12 10:15 PM | Hi everyone, Thanks for posting about this! I'd like to be able to check this out more, but I need some more specific information. - In particular, when you're saying that "everything" is in a particular language, are you... - Being redirected to |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | TSW521 | 6/11/12 5:09 PM | Jessica, I am having the same problem except my Google homepage defaults to Faroese (or Foroyskt, as my Google.com homepage now calls it), the native language of the Faroe Islands. I'm in the United States and have never been to the Faroe Islands. To |
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| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Thomas P. | 6/12/12 6:18 AM | Hi all Could I have you go to the Search Settings Page: https://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en Pick the Language (in left side of page), and select English. Note! If English is already selected, then re-select it and click "Save". |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Thomas P. | 6/12/12 6:25 AM | Jessica, I got a small list for you ;-) - I have never been to Korea : http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearch/kvRkCrwQpMU/discussion - Why did my http://www.google.com page change to Icelandic? : http://productforums.google.com/d/topic/websearc |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | TSW521 | 6/12/12 7:06 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | TSW521 | 6/12/12 7:08 AM | Thomas, I just tried this and it seems to work! English was already selected for me (and was the only language selected). By re-selecting English and clicking "save," it seems to be routing Google.com correctly again. Whatever the problem was, that |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Autoboffin | 6/12/12 1:51 PM | Dear Dingus How do you expect us to find the bloody settings when they are all labelled in a foreign language? All we can do is blunder about the screen blindly. Some of us thought we had stumbled on something useful, but all we got was your superci |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | coaleb | 6/12/12 7:01 PM | This may be dead obvious, but have any of you checked the default language of your browser? In Chrome go to Settings (under the wrench icon) In Settings scroll down to where it says "Show Advanced Settings..." and click on it Now scroll down to where |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | TSW521 | 6/12/12 10:11 PM | Ok, this evening my Google.com page went back to Faroese again. I had to go through Thomas P.'s approach, again, and that fixed it, again (for now). Let's see if it sticks this time... |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Thomas P. | 6/16/12 2:09 PM | As a temporary fix, then you could set your home page to: https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en ... If you want to get more fancy (like me) then: I'm using https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&ion=0&hl=en&safe=off&num=100&filter=0&pws=0 (one explana |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | Autoboffin | 6/19/12 5:11 AM | Firefox 12.0. Windows XP Pro, S.P. 3. The screenshots I took at the time show http://google.com, no reference to Korea. At one point I wa able to change the language to French, then back to English. It didn't make any difference, still Korean! But since la |
| Re: Google insists I am norwegian but I can't read norwegian | jnitrof | 6/28/12 7:29 PM | Hi, I had the same issue, all Google websites seemed to have switched to Norwegian, fortunately I understood enough to get by since I previously worked for a Norwegian company and been to Norway couple of times. But it was still annoying... it kept c |