Google woes

[Matt34]

So I guess this goes off your IP address but Google search defaults to Korean no matter what I've tried. I keep having to type "google in english" in the search bar before doing any searches and it's annoying. Anyway to permentaly set the language settings to English?

 

[mike c]

hmm, mine remembers to go to plain google.com instead of google.com.ph (google.co.kr for you) once i clicked on "google.com in english"

 

[GirgleMirt]

What browser are you using? Have you tried clearing your cache/cookies? Are you signed in iGoogle? You could try logging in/out see if that makes a difference.

 

[10010011]

Had the same problem about a decade ago in Paris. Google kept defaulting to google.fr, even if I typed google.com. But I can not remember how I got around it.

 

[JoshK]

Matt,

-Go to Google.com

-Put your cursor to the right of the search bar. You should then see *Languages*.

-Click Languages, then you have the ability to immediately change your default language preference.

Give that a shot and let me know if that worked for you.

 

[Matt34]

Thanks guys, I've tried all of the above and it kept defaulting back to .kr because google sees my IP is in Korea I guess, even after clearing my cookies and making sure I was signed in on Igoogle.

I tried doing the following:
http://www.chillnite.com/how-to-force-google-search-results-in-english-in-firefox

..but it wouldn't allow me, even as an administrator.

Sooooo, I did some more digging and found this firefox add-on.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51000/


So far so good.