Google (main Google site) is back to Japanese today.

Also, a small ad for Google is appearing at the near-top of the FT screen for this thread, in Japanese, below an English-language ad for a computer notebook, and next to a small Lufthansa ad in English.

(ETA: I've just checked the overall technology forum screen. It doesn't have the Japanese-language ad on that screen but does have a small something saying "Ads by Google.")

I checked the IP/location thread per link above, and no geographical location is being listed on the site today, just the IP du jour.

Still thinking the problem is with the IP my ISP is giving me, but this is becoming eerie. I could see that my carrier might have added a small percentage of new IPs, but this is many occurrences.

I thought that if others had the same problem, I might have heard from them. I haven't.

ETA: Checked Google with another computer on my wireless connection Feb. 25, yesterday from this ETA. That Google website also appeared in Japanese. Therefore the problem would have to be with my ISP only, not with a virus on my computer, which was the worrisome element in all the above. Don't know if I should put this in a new post but thought everyone would probably be a little fatigued with the subject--smile--so am just adding this update as an "ETA." Google is in English today, FWIW.