Greetings From Belgium
According to Google, or is it my laptop, I am currently not at my desk in the United States of America but somewhere in Europe. I am in the Kingdom of Belgium to be specific.
I've got Google homepage book-marked as my start page and it is opening up as Google Belgium and the text is in German. The same applies to Blogger but not my Google reader or Gmail services.
A quick check of my IP fails to reveal my exact where abouts though some IP tracers have me located in Europe. I experienced the same issue when I was in Kenya where I noticed that my browser opens up Google.co.ke when I was on vacation.
The down side to this, is that I sometimes get the wrong listings on the sponsored search because my IP address is usually different to my physical location. Many a times when I am searching for a product or service or browsing pages with Google Ads, I notice adverts for other cities which means that Google has me at a different location.
2 comments:
Have you recently changed your regional settings on control panel (assuming you are using Windows). Can happen when you install some new software and it picks up new settings that 'place' you in a different locality.
2 cents..
I haven't touched my settings. I'm now back to google.com
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