early moth in this year, january 2005. it was surprised me when i browsing internet. i open google.com as usually, the page shown is directed to google.co.id, mean they know where i came from (maybe from my ip), in my national language. what i surprised is there is a link for "boso jowo" too, my local/region laguage. .
Is that - google in your country, also available for your local/region laguage instead of national language?

I live in Canada, and google always directs me to google ca. Actually, I don't think they know it from your ip address, but from a cookie. We all know that google has a 37 year cookie stored on your computer and records all your search terms and sites you went to from the google website. Do not worry! Delete your cookies and this won't happen (although it's not anything bad... just a small fact!)

Google checks where you are browsing from by checking your IP. Then if it has a page for your country you get redirected to that page. The cookie overrides the IP check as far as I know. So if you have a cookie for Germany and you browse from France, you'll get to the German site (or so I've been told, I haven't tested this myself).

Anyway, you can set the language to any of the available no matter where you are. Try out Elmer Fudd, hacker or bork. They're funny There are lots of languages on the Preferences page, even Klingon.

same here, but i am used to google search in english so what i bookmark is the english/international page.

bjrn, those examples you gave are hilarious! maybe i'll change my bookmark to one of those.

btw, nowadays i cant browse google.com again.
it always directed to google.co.id, even if i choose english lang, the address just moved to google.co.id/en/ instead of google.com.
i've ever try some month ago to change in some languages, the result of searching is differnt rank with the same kayword. how could it be? seems they use different directory database.

if you go to google.uz you can see uzbek(that's uzbekistan)

I have switched my preferences to Elmer Fudd, so I get "Youw seawch - searchthatdoesntmatchanydocuments - did not match any documents. Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!" when I search for something with no search results.

i live from spain and if you go to google.es you can see google spain, is very complete and have automatic translation of english unless to this forum ,but so i learn more english that i have.

this forum is that english class in my school, but i go to university i´m a bit old person,but well i have young soul.

There are times when Google redirects me to the local Google, I appreciate thier effort but most of the terms and sentences were literally translated as if they were making fun of our local language. I don't know how they came with those translations, but they are obviously grammatically wrong. :\

Translate have the problems in portuguese language...

The portuguese of Portugal is diferent the portuguese of Brasil then the translat is a misture of tho diferent regions...