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More important matters. Does anyone know why Google.com is being directed to Google.ca? At the same time, people seem to be having trouble with their G-Mail. What is going on?

It's not redirecting for me...maybe it's just a Canada thing?

But I'm not in Canada. I'm very sure that I'm residing in Pennsylvania...

It's a canadian thing. If you go and type google.com into the bar thing it redirects you to google.ca. But if you do want to do a google.com search i think at the bottom of google.ca there is a link to direct you to google.com.

Or not, if your living in penn, then not so sure then.

That's odd.

I live in Canada and it's doing it but I don't see why it's doing it for someone in the US. I wonder what's up.

But as BLK Mage said, there is a button at the bottom which says "Go to Google.com". Just click that for the meantime.

It's to do with regions. Your ISP must be Canadian. This happens with me because my ISP is Brittish, so I'm redirected to '.co.uk' instead of '.com'

I'm always redirected to NZ. Except for when I force it to say at .com or even sometimes .jp.

Precisely. The search engine looks at the country in which the IP address is registered.

But on the google.ca page there should be a link to the google.com page. To get to it you must have cookies enabled for the google.com domain. Then when you type in google.com it shouldn't redirect to the ca site.

is this a recent thing? i'd noticed it taking me to .com.au here but when i search at home (not since 10th dec) i use the toolbar and that takes me to .com even when i want it to take me to .co.uk

it's been doing that for me for ever. i remember when i used a really old mac, .com wouldn't even load, it was just left as a grey screen.
if you really need .com, i tihnk firefox start is .com

But my ISP isn't Canadian. And that wouldn't explain the G-mail issues some people have been having.

Hmmm. *Maybe* your ISP resells a Canadian ISP's service (unlikely). OR maybe the default search site isn't based on IP address, but I don't see what else it could be based on, except where cookies are involved. A truly perplexing puzzle...

As for Gmail issues, I know nothing, not using Gmail (can you believe I never got an invite?)



No, it's the same default search as going to google.com and getting redirected to your own country's google search. Or in the case of Dranzer, to Canada.



To change the google site your toolbar uses click 'Options' on the toolbar, and then click the 'Search' tab. Down the bottom of the box it says 'Use Google Site' and you can pick any.

No need to thank me

Edit: Speling. Also added more hilarity.

i'm sure i changed it and it changed it back tho, but i'll try again when i get home.