On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:49:48 -0000, "PjH : Cima Racing"
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...@address.is.valid> wrote:
>Here's an extract from an email received from Google today...
>"Google has recently started using IP-address detection to
>help our users find our foreign destination sites. Unfortunately,
>our IP-address detection is not perfect and you are being
>inappropriately redirected. We are working on the problem.
Translated: they are clueless incompetents. Their basic premise of
IP address "location" == "required local site" is fatally flawed.
>In the interim, you can regain your old Google.com experience
>by simply clicking on the 'Google.com [English]' link in the
>footer of the page. By clicking on this, Google will note that
>you have opted out of the foreign domain site and you will no
>longer experience redirects."
Which, according to another of their e-mails, *ONLY* works if you
have cookies enabled and *MAY* not work if you have a dynamic IP
address - as all FS users do...
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