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Old Sep 19, 2011 | 9:51 pm
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HKtraveller
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Originally Posted by tentseller
Umm, I also noticed that I am being redirected to the local google.com site on my last Asian trip including sg, ph, hk, and jp.
Back in May/June it was google.com direct, no dot country after the com.
www.google.com redirects you always to the local google site, which for China seems to be Hong Kong. If you go to another local site such as google.co.uk or google.de you should get through.

For the US site you'd need to type www.google.com/ncr not to be redirected.

No idea if that works from China though. From Hong Kong it does.

http://www.google.com/support/websea....py?answer=873
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