drpellypo Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 So my ip is a 151. Address. Looking this up on sites like whatsmyip back this up and puts my location as the town I live in. However, google et al seems to think I'm in Italy. So google ads, default google page, youtube ads, are all Italian. How do I fix this, anybody any ideas? Have tried several router reboots, leaving off overnight etc, all to no avail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Ia havea knowa ideaa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patently Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Ia havea knowa ideaa. Oh shaddapayaface. Have a look at your Google profile. Does it think you're Italian, even if your PC isn't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted January 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Yeah everything I do on google goes to Italian page. So if I type google.com it goes to google.it, making it difficult to check settings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bangle Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Do you have a google / gmail account? Does it only happen in chrome or IE as well? https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386?hl=en Edited January 19, 2014 by Andy_Bangle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Go and use Yahoo instead. Fecking google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted January 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 It's on everything in the house. Android, iOS, PC. I found a link finally to report the problem. Looks like it's the range I'm in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Is it only google this affects though. What about the other search engines? Like Yahoo, Bing etc etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 Yahoo, Bing, does anyone really use anything other than Google these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E-bmw Posted January 19, 2014 Report Share Posted January 19, 2014 My answer would be the name of an Italian footballer........****tiffino...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted January 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 It's just google, which isn't a prob in itself, it's more so for youtube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 If you're saying YouTube appears in Italian, at the bottom of all YouTube pages is a Language/Country setting. Change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasdrury Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 If you're saying YouTube appears in Italian, at the bottom of all YouTube pages is a Language/Country setting. Change it. Even if you change that and YouTube locates your IP to another country you can't get all videos available in the UK - we use a proxy server in Germany and lots of stuff is barred because of GEMA rules, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Even if you change that and YouTube locates your IP to another country you can't get all videos available in the UK - we use a proxy server in Germany and lots of stuff is barred because of GEMA rules, for example. Yes, of course that's true. However, I'm going purely on the basis that he says no other sites do it and he's tracked his IP to the UK. I appreciate it doesn't mean Google won't place him elsewhere, but I'm just trying to give him an option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiser647 Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Yahoo, Bing, does anyone really use anything other than Google these days? yep - I do. If yahoo or Bing can't find it, then I'll use google. Just not a big fan of theirs, that is all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 I use Bing a fair bit, mainly as all the Microsoft stuff is better indexed on there (who knew) and I find their tech search results are better - for everything else though, Google. Haven't bothered with Yahoo for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Bing is doing very well indeed I recently did an analysis of search (organic) traffic I was receiving and found the results astonishing. It was for a variety of key phrases, all of which were ranked No.1 on Google.co.uk and 1 to 3 on Yahoo! and Bing. Bearing in mind that Google once had 91% of the UK search market, you can see why I was surprised.... Google - 50% Bing - 30% Yahoo! - 14% Others - 6% I was so surprised I ran the same tests for the 3 months prior to the period, and got this: Google - 51% Bing - 29% Yahoo - 16% Others - 4% So despite there being variances, and of course the fact this is a tiny test, there are changes afoot. The number of systems out there on which Bing is bundled, pre-configured, as default search is very high too - and not everyone changes it. I only ever use Google. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 That's quite surprising, I assumed Google had the market sewn up, and it looks like they did for a while. I'm not sure I know anyone that doesn't have Google as their default search engine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 A lot of corps don't, and it's getting wider too. The whole NSA thing doesn't help either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Believe it or not, Ask still gets 2% of use in the "Others" category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tipex Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Was that Ask Jeeves at one point? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Was that Ask Jeeves at one point? Yup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 I've seen quite a few people use Duckduckgo recently due to them not storing the searches and passing on the cookie data of what you have been looking at and what you search it would seem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 20, 2014 Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Duckduckgo are in the "others" as it happens, and increasingly so. Fractional mind you, reallllllly fractional. They've now got momentum though, after years of being unheard of (and to be fair, most people will still see that name and think WTF?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted January 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2014 Even if you change that and YouTube locates your IP to another country you can't get all videos available in the UK - we use a proxy server in Germany and lots of stuff is barred because of GEMA rules, for example. Yes. This. All adverts are Italian and loads of videos I used to be able to see, I now can't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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