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Geolocation is one of the single worst ideas that has ever been conceived.
Yes I live in The Netherlands, do I speak and read dutch.... no!
I use iGoogle
If I type www.google.com I get www.google.nl and then all of my searches come back in dutch.
If I type www.google.co.uk then I get www.google.co.uk and my search results are in english.
So my homepage has always been www.google.co.uk
Now this was fine until about 30 minutes ago.
Now google have changed something
if I go to www.google.co.uk and type in a search the returned results are now in dutch and the page changes to the dutch language even though the URL at the top of the page clearly says I am still on www.google.co.uk.
I can see where geolocation can have it's uses but it's so widespread now and most sites do not have an option to disable it.
I am sure I am not the only person getting stung by geolocation throwing up things in languages people don't want.
If I take a laptop to russia and start using the net I don't want the damn sites in Russian
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