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my stupid ISP routes every google to www.google.co.il which is really annoying. i have to use the "g what every i want to search" string in opera. while i do use it a lot and i love the feature, sometimes i do want the english google site.

anywho, they all look the same to me.
 
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
my stupid ISP routes every google to www.google.co.il which is really annoying. i have to use the "g what every i want to search" string in opera. while i do use it a lot and i love the feature, sometimes i do want the english google site.

anywho, they all look the same to me.
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Did you try www.l.google.com ? Is it their DNS or something?
 
Originally posted by: ForumMaster
my stupid ISP routes every google to www.google.co.il which is really annoying. i have to use the "g what every i want to search" string in opera. while i do use it a lot and i love the feature, sometimes i do want the english google site.

anywho, they all look the same to me.
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How about google.com/ncr?
 
Norton Internet Security threw up an alert on that last link. See explanation below.
HTTP Apache Redundant Slashes DoS

On versions of Apache prior to 1.2.5, the overhead involved in removing redundant slashes grows exponentially in relation to the number of slashes -- O(n^2). You would not have to strip a single slash, but if two slashes appeared together, you would have to strip one of them. If there were three, you would remove two, but it would take twice as long. If there were eleven, you would have to remove ten, and it would take 1024 times as long. If an attacker sends enough requests with redundant slashes, the attacker could keep all Apache processes busy removing redundant slashes and this would effectively halt system performance and Web service.


Affected:

Apache Software Foundation Apache 0.8.11, 0.8.14, 1.0, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.5, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.2
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That's how load balancing works...nothing to see here. The were kind enough to strip the extra "/" off for you to get a correct URL.
 
gaaa!

This is what load balancers do. You think you are actually connecting to google servers? No, you aren't. You are redirected via DNA and HTTP to servers that best suit your location.

What one user sees is not the same as another.
 
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