Google English

[david_w2k]

Basically,
my mate pinged www.google.co.uk and the IP he got links to Google, but the logo displays as Google ENGLISH. We cannot replicate it except by pinging www.google.co.uk. The logo is the same file however written in plain text is the word English. Just having a Stella fuelled argument about it! Please solve.

mine says Google UK from that link

[Chris W]

can you post the ip so we can try browsing to that....

Chris$ ping www.google.co.uk
PING www.l.google.com (66.102.9.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.102.9.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=241 time=41.630 ms
64 bytes from 66.102.9.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=241 time=40.539 ms

http://66.102.9.104/
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oooh that IP does give Google English

PS i'm moving this to the Internet Forum.

[david_w2k]

http://66.102.9.104/

[MadGamer]

Im getting http://216.239.39.104

[Hom3r]

Are these IP's acually Google or some phising site

[patrickp]

The IP I get is 216.239.59.99 and, again, it goes to Google English.

No, wouldn't be a phishing site if that's the IP you get from pinging www.google.co.uk. I notice, however, that there's an extra link, Local, which takes you to a North American view in Google Maps, and the Search the web/pages from the UK radio buttons are missing. At a guess, it's actually a North American Google page for a region where languages other than English are spoken: I think the word English refers to the language rather than the country.
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Originally Posted by homealone

mine says Google UK from that link

david is talking about pinging that address, then directing your browser to the resultant IP, Gaz, not just clicking the link! ;-)

Originally Posted by patrickp

david is talking about pinging that address, then directing your browser to the resultant IP, Gaz, not just clicking the link! ;-)

thanks Patrick - /me totally confused, time to go to bed

[Graham M]

Google will have many servers to serve the millions of search hits it must get every second, then add in the work of the spidering bots. Google will just have a large round-robin IP addressing scheme, so almost no 2 people will get the same IP within any given time, they all give the same site and results tho as theyll all be kept up to date with each other.