<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><span>Thanks Mike for helping me. I changed the action to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.ca/search">http://www.google.ca/search</a> and I got results in english. Strangely though putting google.us brings me back to google germany. I think that google.us looks at the ip address that's requesting the results and figures I'm from germany. but it doesn't matter, it's fixed! thanks to everybody who helped.</span><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Mike Perry &lt;mikepery@fscked.org&gt;<br>To: or-talk@freehaven.net<br>Sent: Monday, September 4, 2006 5:39:06 PM<br>Subject: Re: (FWD) Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is
 enabled<br><br><div>Thus spake Roger Dingledine (arma@mit.edu):<br><br>&gt; [Forwarding because Alexis isn't subscribed to or-talk at this<br>&gt; address. Also, you should check out the FAQ entry on this topic:<br>&gt; <a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleLanguage">http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleLanguage</a><br>&gt; -RD]<br>&gt; <br>&gt; From: "Alexis Villebrun" &lt;alex@ssji.net&gt;<br>&gt; Just modify the searchplugins/google.src like this :<br>&gt; <br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;input name="q" user&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;inputnext name="start" factor="10"&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;inputprev&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; +&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;input name="hl" value="en"&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;input name="ie" value="utf-8"&gt;<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;input name="oe"
 value="utf-8"&gt;<br><br><br>Actually, this has never worked for me... However what does work is<br>changing the action line to be google.ca, google.us, or <br>google.co.uk.<br><br><br>- action="<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/search%22">http://www.google.com/search"</a>;<br>+ action="<a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.us/search%22">http://www.google.us/search"</a>;<br><br><br>-- <br>Mike Perry<br>Mad Computer Scientist<br>fscked.org evil labs<br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>