From the UK I used to just use the URL:

http://www.google.com

This used to default to the English version.
Now it switches to the Dutch version with the suffix /nl after it.

So, I've set myself to:

http://www.google.com/en

Alls well with this URL but I wondered if I missed some announcement or other.

....I just meant their start screen of-course

Well I just tried my bookmark of: www.google.com and it came up with an english version. No n/l or /en at the end. Maybe it's just a UK thing, huh?

You may just be right but the strange thing is that from here it had changed to Nederlands default "mostly" but "occasionally" back to English again.

Very odd!

Would be interested to know if other UK users are getting this. If it's just me then maybe I applied one tweak to many somewhere.

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Hello Derek. I live in the U.K. and use google quite frequently. I have not had any problems yet with language as it always comes up in English for me. Just tried it again with no language problems. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Well sometime somewhere along the line my google bookmark changed to http://www.google.ca/ from http://www.google.com, and now offers a french language option.
At least the default is english, despite some whiners in our bi-cultural Gov't. ;)

Google seems to cleverly redirect to a local server in the DNS process. I get a different page when pinging google.com and using the I to just entering google.com in the web browser.

Perhaps it is somehow thinking your ISP is dutch and rediecting you there.

Hi Derek

(Good news today, eh?)

As for Google - I may be missing something profound here, but:

Why don't you just use: www.google.co.uk

If this isn't what you're asking then blame it on me having my mind on other things!!!!

See ya
Tom

Yeah Tom, brilliant!!

Well, I haven't tried it as www.google.co.uk so I'll give that a whirl.

Before I came on here to post this I went to
http://www.google.com as usual and it switched straight to /nl and came up in Dutch again.

I know how to get round it (adding /en or probably Tom's suggestion) but I'm totally baffled as to why I'm being singled out for this "change" when I haven't altered the URL for yonks. Maybe I should take more water with it.

Thanks for all inputs, would love to hear from someone in UK (or anywhere else) that gets this. In the meantime I'll untweak as many recent changes as I can recall just to see if I can find out why.

All tweaks checked and they are nothing to do with it.

Will settle for Tom's UK version. Still no idea why this happens on www.google.com so will check around locally to see if anyone else gets switched to the Dutch screen.

Thanks all.