John C Woolsey, LEED AP » google http://www.johnwoolsey.net Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:26:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 What the ひらがな, 平仮名!? http://www.johnwoolsey.net/2009/02/18/what-the-%e3%81%b2%e3%82%89%e3%81%8c%e3%81%aa-%e5%b9%b3%e4%bb%ae%e5%90%8d/ http://www.johnwoolsey.net/2009/02/18/what-the-%e3%81%b2%e3%82%89%e3%81%8c%e3%81%aa-%e5%b9%b3%e4%bb%ae%e5%90%8d/#comments Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:52:19 +0000 John http://www.johnwoolsey.net/?p=370 This morning when I jumped online to check out what happened in the world overnight I was greeted by an unusual set of google search results.  I typed in my search in my Firefox search bar and the Google redirected me to http://www.google.co.jp and I couldn’t get it to stop.  Do yourself a favor and don’t click on that link – you might get permanently redirected.

I scoured Yahoo! to find an answer (Because I can’t read Japanese) and found THIS BLOG POST with a good answer.  In a nutshel go to http://www.google.com/ncr and it will reset your server location.

Turns out somehow the local server for my IP was reassigned to Japan.  Probaly not a problem with my Firefox or my system.  An AVG scan showed nothing was wrong.  I guess sometimes the IP – Search server gets mixed up.

Can anyone tell me WHY this happens?  I have only managed to figure out the fix.

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