Google on my Hero thinks I'm in China - WTH?

[armyturtle]

Sometimes when I'm on EVDO and I go to google for searching the Google Search button says "Google" but has Chinese characters next to it. If I search for something it returns all my results in Chinese. If I go back to the main search page and change it to "search in english" things appear as normally expected.

Is there some reason my phone or Google thinks I'm in China when in fact I'm actually in California? Visiting http://geotoolservehttp.com currently shows my IP out of Kansas, though I haven't checked this site when this is happening to me with the Chinese issue.

Anyone else experience this?

 

[TrevE]

Yes - mine thinks im in spain when im in conecticut. Even setting my google account to english it didn't seem to take. I set my homepage to google.com/intl/en to get around it

 

[x99percent]

Anyone else experience this?

I saw the same thing this morning... in the past, I've also had all of my results come back in french.

The fix for me was just to sign in to google.com with my Google account.

 

[ljmeli]

Anyone else experience this?

Yup got Germany. (I live in CO)

 

[troyboytn]

Had it happen to me also...in french.

 

[scirio]

I get an italian version every once in a while. Pretty annoying.

 

[mactruc]

I had this happen on my Treo Pro 850 a few times and never found a solution. I haven't had it happen on my Hero yet, knock on wood.

 

[VoXHTC]

Google is attempting a new cultural campaign whether you like it or not.

 

[TurboZinc]

Happened to me in Spanish. Cleared the cache and it returned to normal.

 

[tbaker077]

No joke I had Elmer Fudd language turn up on Eris when I did a Google search(via the search button).

 

[surrealbliss]

This used to happen to me a lot on my old winmo phone, I'm in Ohio but it thinks it needs to be in French. I got around this both ways I've already seen people say, google.com/intl/en or just sign in to google.

Anyways.. I just wanted to confirm that this isn't anything to do with the phone, but Google itself.

 

[surrealbliss]

double posted somehow... sorry. ;(

 

[Saltwater Hero]

Same is happening to me lol