Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

[Juan A. Tapulan]

Edit your google search plugin file (searchplugins\google.src) and the
highlighted line:

.....
<input name="ie" value="utf-8">
<input name="oe" value="utf-8">
<input name="hl" value="en">
.....

Hope this helps.

On 9/4/06, Kelly Byrd <kbyrd-tor at memcpy.com> wrote:
>
> > I went directly to www.google.com but the same problem came up. On the
> > Gernan google homepage there is a link to google in english. When I put
> > my mouse over it, the url I will be going to is www.google.com/nrc which
> > redirects me back to google.com. I typed in google.com/nrc and it did
> the
> > same thing. Now can you or anybody please help me make a search plugin
> > that includes google.com/nrc. I tried to make one, and will try again,
> so
> > that I can get google to be in english. Thanks Andrea for your insight
> on
> > how the google search plugin works,
> >
>
> You should know, lots of sites do this trick, called geolocation. They
> try and determine where you are in the world from your IP and display
> different content accordingly. I know of at least Amazon and Google. It's
> not the search plugin's doing, it's the fact that connection to
> www.google.com really redirects you to an IP that's localized based on
> IP.
>
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