google search redirected to language/country of Tor exit node

[Matt Thorne]

As a Solution to this. Windows users might consider changing their hosts 
file to redirect www.google.pl <http://www.google.pl> or any other google's 
to one of google's main IP addresses. 
 more about hosts files can be found @
http://accs-net.com/hosts/what_is_hosts.html<http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm>
 but basically it is a local file that your computer checks before It goes 
out to get a website. A sample ping showed the IP of
(64.233.161.147<http://64.233.161.147>)
for www.google.com <http://www.google.com>
 I think that I will do this my self later on when I am not @ work; so when 
I am done I will repost with what the entries should look like. I know its a 
big solution to a small problem, but I am OCD and like to fix things. I 
don't know if there is a corolary for linux users, but it feels logical that 
there would be.
 -=Matt=-

On 8/30/05, phobos at rootme.org <phobos at rootme.org> wrote:
 
> There's a FAQ entry about this:
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleLanguage
> 
> Yes, it is expected behavior.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:38:17AM -0700, OpenMacNews at speakeasy.net wrote 
> 1.1K bytes in 37 lines about:
> : hi all,
> :
> : i'm experiencing a bit of oddness with Google Search when using Tor ...
> :
> : i'm using FireFox106 thru a Squid+Privoxy+Tor setup on OSX.
> :
> : if i navigate to a site while Tor'd, and find that my exit point is, e.g
> .
> : in Poland, and then enter a search via the Google toolbar, my search
> : results page comes up as http://www.google.pl -- in Polish.
> :
> : this behavior SEEMS to indepdendent of my google prefs ... set to 
> English
> : at the moment.
> :
> : is this an expected behavior, for any given exit point? or some sort of
> : preference (Google? Squid? Tor?) setting that i haven't yet ferreted 
> out?
> :
> : thx,
> :
> : richard
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Phobos
> 
>
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