Browsers forum: Google regional settings issues.

and a difficult one I fear. I had, (sneakily), tracked your discussion hoping some tech wizard would reply with an easy answer so I could try it out myself, but day 2 and no replies, so I have tried to do a bit of research myself.

I used Google itself with the term How to change Google regional settings. There may be better terms to search for.

Google is geared to supply advertising based on your IP address. It recognises your IP location, (Germany), and so targets ads for Germany. Advertising is Google's business and so it seems to me that search results are listed according to the IP criteria, in your case, German.

Try this, if you haven't already done so. Google main page, then "Language Tools" to the right of the search box. In the new page, look for the "Specify Language" option and select. Then choose English as the language. If there is a "Save Preferences" button, click that. If that helps, you may be able to disable the Firefox translator add-on.

I have just seen, scrolled down on that page, a list of nations flags and "Visit Google's Site in Your Local Domain". However, for the life of me I cannot find the USofA flag. I can see my own, (UK), but not US. That might be worth a try, possibly using the UK flag option.

There's an involved discussion about this here;
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/archive/index.php/t-9468.html

You might find that useful, but I would guess that, at the end of the day, you may be limited to Google searching based on your location.

Not good, but I hope it helps.

Mark

This is my experience: I always had problem with all the google searches I was performing since I moved to Lithuania.
Not my researches launched from my homepage which is google.co.uk, but all the researches I do right clicking an highlighted word and selecting "Search with google" all the result were in Lithuanian, which I don't speak at all.
Today I researched online and found very little. I decided then to work it out by myself because I am here since June 2011 and still at today's date my quick searches were displayed in Lithuanian.

Well, not any more.
If you go here
http://www.google.com/language_tools
you can set up your language under the fourth paragraph.

In here then you should see English, if not change for it.
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en