Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

[Siera Leone]

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,


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From: Andrea <andrea_moro at email.it>
To: or-talk at freehaven.net
Sent: Monday, September 4, 2006 5:17:38 AM
Subject: Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

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i think that google have this strange behavior because the search plugin
of firefox use this address: www.google.com and this address try to
redirect to the google-localized(.de .fr .it) viewing the ip that have
requested the page. most of the exit tor node are situated in germany
and in this way the most time you go to www.google.com you are
redirected to www.google.de(try to go directly to www.google.com).

a.m.

Siera Leone wrote:
> I just started to use Tor with the firefox extention. When the extention
> is on and I do a Google search wether it's with the search plugin in
> firefox or going to google.com I get rerouted to google.de which is not
> in english. I can use the english version of google just fine without
> the extention on and when I use IE with Tor running in the background.
> The workaround for this is to leave tor off when doing a google search
> and enableing it in firefox when I am done. Since Tor is all about
> privacy, I'm exposing my IP to google when I do this. Can you please
> explain my problem if you can and tell me how to fix it? Also, I'm
> behind a router so I don't know if that means anything. Thanks.
> 

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