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Why Google look at your location rather than the browsers preferred language to chose language with is just beyond me. Oh, and then I go to Google Maps and it always shows me the US no matter where I am.

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They do it because many people and most cybercafes around the world have their language configured incorrectly in their browsers. Most of the time, for novice users, the geo targeting is more accurate than browser settings.

I agree, it's hugely annoying.

the google maps = USA thing is probably because either you haven't set your location in google settings (or wherever...there's a thing), or you configure your browser to throw away cookies.

I've found that google.com/maps always shows the US, but google.{co.uk,de,es,fr,it,ru, etc etc}/maps will always show a sensible viewport.

In this case, I think I prefer that approach.

Ah, that could be. My access method is pretty much "^Lma<cr>"

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