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disable Google country redirection

I live in Belgium, a country that has three national languages: French, Dutch and German. I speak French, I barely understand Dutch, and I can’t speak any German.

But I know enough English to run all my software in English, always.

Now every once in a while, Google realizes that I am in Belgium and switches to Dutch. And in the case of Google Groups, there doesn’t even seem to be a setting to go back to English (or I could not find it).

So this link is invaluable to me : http://www.google.com/ncr

NCR stands for No Country Redirection, accessing Google through this link will prevent Google from ever trying to guess your language based on your location.