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Google Block
Posted: Thu 30 Dec, 2004 19.50
by James H
Since getting Firefox, my computer has decided to block several websites, such as Google search, and my sister told me sclubbers.co.uk but not sclubbers.com. What's going on?
Posted: Thu 30 Dec, 2004 22.31
by noelfirl
I just tried accesing "sclubbers.co.uk" with both Firefox and IE, neither bring up anything but a blank page.
Google.com is working fine for me.
Posted: Fri 31 Dec, 2004 18.03
by Bail
How odd, my laptop (Firefox 1.0) says google.co.uk cannot be found, but google.com can. My PC (Firefox 1.0) See google.co.uk and .com without a problem.
Posted: Fri 31 Dec, 2004 18.50
by cdd
has google ever been down? i've certainly never experienced any downtime
Posted: Sat 01 Jan, 2005 18.27
by cat
How come that when I type in
http://www.google.com on anything from Safari to IE for Mac, it just sends it to
http://www.google.co.uk?
It never used to, and it's really quite annoying. Is this a general thing Google have started doing, or am I at fault?
Posted: Sat 01 Jan, 2005 18.37
by Neil Jones
has google ever been down? i've certainly never experienced any downtime
Yes, it has. A virus took it out, IIRC it was MSBlast.
How come that when I type in
http://www.google.com on anything from Safari to IE for Mac, it just sends it to
http://www.google.co.uk?
It never used to, and it's really quite annoying. Is this a general thing Google have started doing, or am I at fault?
This happens to me too, but if you follow the link at the bottom of Google.co.uk where it says "go to Google.com", it has a link to
http://www.google.com/ncr where it then diverts you to Google.com and continues to do so. Both IE6 and FireFox 1.0
Posted: Sat 01 Jan, 2005 18.37
by James Hatts
cat wrote:How come that when I type in
http://www.google.com on anything from Safari to IE for Mac, it just sends it to
http://www.google.co.uk?
It never used to, and it's really quite annoying. Is this a general thing Google have started doing, or am I at fault?
If you click the "Go to Google.com" link on Google.co.uk it will remember your preference.
Posted: Sat 01 Jan, 2005 19.34
by Pete
It's localising all it's users to improve results. Why is it annoying anyhow? what advantage does .com give when the default on .co.uk is to search like .com
On the subject of google though...
http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html
Posted: Sun 02 Jan, 2005 16.34
by cat
Annoying is probably the wrong word... but I know consciously that if I want to go to Google.com then I'll type that in, likewise if I type in Google.co.uk -- I don't want a computer trying to second guess me.
It's like CNN.com when it frequently redirects you to CNN.com/International, because you have to choose your edition from a popup that appears... and having pop-up windows turned off, I keep missing it.
Posted: Sun 02 Jan, 2005 17.31
by cdd
cat wrote:How come that when I type in
http://www.google.com on anything from Safari to IE for Mac, it just sends it to
http://www.google.co.uk?
It never used to, and it's really quite annoying. Is this a general thing Google have started doing, or am I at fault?
Yes, it's general. And I like it. HOWEVER, it's very irritating here in Mexico because it redirects to google.com.mx - what a waste of time!
Posted: Sun 02 Jan, 2005 19.11
by Chris
cdd wrote:Yes, it's general. And I like it. HOWEVER, it's very irritating here in Mexico because it redirects to google.com.mx - what a waste of time!
You on holiday or something?
