# why is google.com being redirected to google.nl?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 7, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197 "2004-06-07T23:38:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/1 "2004-06-07T23:38:59Z")
Is this happening with anyone else???
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/2 "2004-06-07T23:48:12Z")
It isn’t redirecting me.
Are you using a Google toolbar? The one for Mozilla defaults to Nicaragua whenever I reinstall it, for some reason.
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/3 "2004-06-07T23:49:07Z")
try [www.google.com/ncr](http://www.google.com/ncr) and see what you get.
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### Author:  [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/4 "2004-06-07T23:52:58Z")
The reason I say to try that is that they may have recently enabled something called “Geotargeting” for your area.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2004, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/5 "2004-06-07T23:59:14Z")
> [@Berkut](#):
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> try [www.google.com/ncr](http://www.google.com/ncr) and see what you get.
I get [google.com](http://google.com).
And now I am not being redirected.
that was weird though.
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### Author:  [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/6 "2004-06-08T00:06:50Z")
The Dutch are taking over the world. Didn’t you get the memo? 🙂
Actually, I have the reverse frustration. [Google.com](http://Google.com) ALWAYS redirects to .nl for me, and I don’t want that! I really think English is a better language for computers than Dutch is. My new PC has a Dutch version of Win XP on it, and I don’t understand what the hell it’s talking about half of the time. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/7 "2004-06-08T00:08:41Z")
Getting [google.com](http://google.com) now. The last couple of days though I’ve been having trouble pulling it up at all. Seems to be working fine now.
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### Author:  [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/8 "2004-06-08T01:08:36Z")
Mine tends to go to Google.ca.
Doesn’t bother me, though, because I’m still able to find everything I’m looking for. Is the redirect affecting your searches?
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/9 "2004-06-08T02:42:04Z")
> [@Berkut](#):
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> try [www.google.com/ncr](http://www.google.com/ncr) and see what you get.
The New California Republic won’t exist for a hundred and forty years and it already has a search engine? Maybe this gas price increase _is_ serious…
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/10 "2004-06-08T12:10:15Z")
I find that Google tends to redirect me when I’m goofing around with the “Regional and Language Options” applet in the windows control panel. Over the weekend, I was monkeying around with some Japanese software and had my computer set to Japanese compatibility mode and found Google pulled up it’s Japanese page for me automatically. Went back to normal when I reset everything to English.
Either that or it really is, as Coldfire said, the first blow of the Dutch invasion.
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### Author:  [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/11 "2004-06-08T12:21:15Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#):
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> The New California Republic won’t exist for a hundred and forty years and it already has a search engine? Maybe this gas price increase _is_ serious…
It’s the hyperintelligent Deathclaws, I’m telling you!
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### Author:  [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/12 "2004-06-08T12:56:30Z")
I guess you only get google.nl when _not_ living in nl.
Oh yeah, we’re coming to get you, **Lobsang** , we’ll bring our cheese and clogs to smell you out. 😃
**Coldfire** My computer language is Dutch too. What a pain in the bippy. Is there something to be done about?
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### Author:  [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/13 "2004-06-08T12:59:47Z")
> [@Antigen](#):
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> Mine tends to go to Google.ca.
En Français? As it says right on the page: Le domaine Google.ca est disponible en: English
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/14 "2004-06-08T14:22:08Z")
> [@lno](#):
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> It’s the hyperintelligent Deathclaws, I’m telling you!
Think Unca Cecil is in on that whole Enclave thing?
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### Author:  [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/15 "2004-06-08T14:44:13Z")
google redirects to your contry’s google, in my case google.com.au to lower congestion on it’s main server, or something like that. It doesn’t change the search results. There was a gq on this about a month or so ago about google.ca
Cheers
Engine
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/16 "2004-06-08T15:11:21Z")
> [@Go You Big Red Fire Engine](#):
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> google redirects to your contry’s google, in my case google.com.au to lower congestion on it’s main server, or something like that. It doesn’t change the search results. There was a gq on this about a month or so ago about google.ca
> Cheers
> Engine
\ Can I say how very awesome your name is? \
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### Author:  [@Go\_You\_Big\_Red\_Fire\_Engine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_You_Big_Red_Fire_Engine)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/17 "2004-06-08T15:45:37Z")
> [@Really Not All That Bright](#):
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> \ Can I say how very awesome your name is? \
yes. yes you can. It’s awesome.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/18 "2004-06-08T17:28:42Z")
> [@Go You Big Red Fire Engine](#):
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> yes. yes you can. It’s awesome.
I wasn’t actually going to say it or anything. I just wanted permission. 😉
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/19 "2004-06-08T17:34:57Z")
> [@gum](#):
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> My computer language is Dutch too. What a pain in the bippy.
Tch. Benevolent Bill Gates goes to all the trouble of Dutchifying your Windows User Interface Lifestyle Experience[sup]SM[/sup] and you say it’s a pain in the bippy? Some folk have no gratitude.
Say, what is a bippy, anyway?
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2004, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-google-com-being-redirected-to-google-nl/249197/20 "2004-06-08T18:25:39Z")
Incidentally, you should be able to declogify™ your computer if you’re using xp or 2k (dunno about other windows versions) through the same control panel applet I mentioned below. Just be sure to have your install disk handy.
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