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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:03 am Post subject: Google Facelift |
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| Anybody else getting a funky Google logo on supposedly international generic google.com today? I guess it's a Korean artist by the name of 백남준's birthday, were he still alive. I could see google.co.kr doing this, but I thought that the google.com that we see is the same google.com the rest of the world sees, but it doesn't seem to me that this guy's birthday (though after reading about him a bit, he was pretty impressive) would warrant a google.com facelift. |
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8 years down
Joined: 16 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| My Google is a bunch of TVs, radios, and UFO stuff. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:16 am Post subject: |
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google.com automatically redirects to google.co.kr. Check your address bar. What does it say?
My home page is google.co.nz and it is always generic. |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:26 am Post subject: |
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| 8 years down wrote: |
| My Google is a bunch of TVs, radios, and UFO stuff. |
Same here. It changes all the time. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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He allegedly coined the term "Superhighway"-
maybe that's the reason Google loves him so much  ) |
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FMPJ
Joined: 03 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| He is considered the father of video art and was an extremely influential avant-garde artist, early member of Fluxus, experimental composer, and more. Pretty major figure in the art world. Koreans don't trumpet his virtues too much because he was raised/educated largely in Japan and then found success in the US, and he never really emphasized his Koreanness or re-connected with his heritage. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Richard Krainium wrote: |
| 8 years down wrote: |
| My Google is a bunch of TVs, radios, and UFO stuff. |
Same here. It changes all the time. |
That's him. I'm wondering if this was a universal thing. Are either of you in the UK, US or Canada? |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Richard Krainium wrote: |
| 8 years down wrote: |
| My Google is a bunch of TVs, radios, and UFO stuff. |
Same here. It changes all the time. |
That's him. I'm wondering if this was a universal thing. Are either of you in the UK, US or Canada? |
In Korea, but not using google.kr. Today it's back to its generic google. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| Richard Krainium wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Richard Krainium wrote: |
| 8 years down wrote: |
| My Google is a bunch of TVs, radios, and UFO stuff. |
Same here. It changes all the time. |
That's him. I'm wondering if this was a universal thing. Are either of you in the UK, US or Canada? |
In Korea, but not using google.kr. Today it's back to its generic google. |
How do you even do that? Every time I type in google.com it redirects to g.co.kr. I would like to know so that I can set the google search in my menu bar to search .com and not .co.kr. |
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8 years down
Joined: 16 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| At the bottom of the google page there's a link that says "google.com in English." Click that, it will put a cookie on your comp so it stays English (until the next time you clear your cookies). |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:46 am Post subject: |
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| Senior wrote: |
| Richard Krainium wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| Richard Krainium wrote: |
| 8 years down wrote: |
| My Google is a bunch of TVs, radios, and UFO stuff. |
Same here. It changes all the time. |
That's him. I'm wondering if this was a universal thing. Are either of you in the UK, US or Canada? |
In Korea, but not using google.kr. Today it's back to its generic google. |
How do you even do that? Every time I type in google.com it redirects to g.co.kr. I would like to know so that I can set the google search in my menu bar to search .com and not .co.kr. |
If you're using the google toolbar, go to tools and change the site to US or whatever one you want. |
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Senior
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| Cheers. 8 Down's advice cured the problem. |
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pandapanda
Joined: 22 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| www.google.com/ncr ncr means no country redirect |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| pandapanda wrote: |
| www.google.com/ncr ncr means no country redirect |
Never seen that link before. Thanks and bookmarked. |
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