(FWD) Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

[Siera Leone]

Thanks Mike for helping me. I changed the action to http://www.google.ca/search and I got results in english. Strangely though putting google.us brings me back to google germany. I think that google.us looks at the ip address that's requesting the results and figures I'm from germany. but it doesn't matter, it's fixed! thanks to everybody who helped.


----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Perry <mikepery at fscked.org>
To: or-talk at freehaven.net
Sent: Monday, September 4, 2006 5:39:06 PM
Subject: Re: (FWD) Re: Something Strange Happens to google when Tor is enabled

Thus spake Roger Dingledine (arma at mit.edu):

> [Forwarding because Alexis isn't subscribed to or-talk at this
> address. Also, you should check out the FAQ entry on this topic:
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#GoogleLanguage
> -RD]
> 
> From: "Alexis Villebrun" <alex at ssji.net>
> Just modify the searchplugins/google.src like this :
> 
>      <input name="q" user>
>      <inputnext name="start" factor="10">
>      <inputprev>
>   +  <input name="hl" value="en">
>      <input name="ie" value="utf-8">
>      <input name="oe" value="utf-8">


Actually, this has never worked for me... However what does work is
changing the action line to be google.ca, google.us, or 
google.co.uk.


- action="http://www.google.com/search";
+ action="http://www.google.us/search";


-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
fscked.org evil labs




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