Location, Location, Location
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I'm a UK resident using a VPN which gives me a virtual address 200 miles north but still in the UK which is recognised by all the IP trackers I can find as in the UK so ... why does Google insist that I'm in the United Arab Emirates and give me pages in English and Arabic? More importantly is there a way to stop Google putting me a thousand miles or so to the East of my actual place d'existence?
Location, Location, Frustration
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I'm a UK resident using a VPN which gives me a virtual address 200 miles north but still in the UK which is recognised by all the IP trackers I can find as in the UK so ... why does Google insist that I'm in the United Arab Emirates and give me pages in English and Arabic? More importantly is there a way to stop Google putting me a thousand miles or so to the East of my actual place d'existence?
Member 9082365 wrote:
UK which is recognised by all the IP trackers I can find as in the UK so ... why does Google insist that I'm in the United Arab Emirates and give me pages in English and Arabic?
I know some in the UK who insist that the UK is being overrun by Muslims so perhaps it is intentional. :-\
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm a UK resident using a VPN which gives me a virtual address 200 miles north but still in the UK which is recognised by all the IP trackers I can find as in the UK so ... why does Google insist that I'm in the United Arab Emirates and give me pages in English and Arabic? More importantly is there a way to stop Google putting me a thousand miles or so to the East of my actual place d'existence?
I think there is a url you can use to force google to think your location is in the UK. Try this: http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en[^]
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I think there is a url you can use to force google to think your location is in the UK. Try this: http://www.google.co.uk/webhp?hl=en[^]
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Member 9082365 wrote:
I'm a UK resident using a VPN which gives me a virtual address 200 miles north but still in the UK which is recognised by all the IP trackers I can find as in the UK so ... why does Google insist that I'm in the United Arab Emirates and give me pages in English and Arabic? More importantly is there a way to stop Google putting me a thousand miles or so to the East of my actual place d'existence?
Since when is the UAE part of Lithuania? :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
force google to think your location is in the UK
But I am in the UK and so's the VPN server. Anyway, it doesn't work. It's overridden to put me back in UAE!
Odd: works for me here in the US: defaults google to the UK. Oh well; sorry that didn't help. Maybe you only think you're in the UK... :)
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Hmm, your geography's about as good as mine. I think that would put one in Poland rather than Lithuania. But yes, I should have said something more like 4000 miles SE!
Well, according to this[^], Vilnius is 1074 miles away from London, in a ENE direction. You said you were 200 miles north of your actual location in the UK, which implies that your "fake" location is probably at least halfway up Britain, probably pretty close to Newcastle (unless you are starting somewhere further north than the London area, in which case 200 miles north probably puts you in Scotland). Directly east from there is Lithuania... :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Well, according to this[^], Vilnius is 1074 miles away from London, in a ENE direction. You said you were 200 miles north of your actual location in the UK, which implies that your "fake" location is probably at least halfway up Britain, probably pretty close to Newcastle (unless you are starting somewhere further north than the London area, in which case 200 miles north probably puts you in Scotland). Directly east from there is Lithuania... :doh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Yes but I said East of my actual place of existence not East of my virtual one and that is way down south (south of what is called The South, in fact).
Well, then it seems it is my reading comprehension that is lacking rather than my geography... :sigh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I'm a UK resident using a VPN which gives me a virtual address 200 miles north but still in the UK which is recognised by all the IP trackers I can find as in the UK so ... why does Google insist that I'm in the United Arab Emirates and give me pages in English and Arabic? More importantly is there a way to stop Google putting me a thousand miles or so to the East of my actual place d'existence?