Dear Google: please don't hijack EVERYTHING to google.com.hk +

Dear Google,

I am sorry for your loss of Chinese search market and I hate PRC ruling class as much as you do. But please don't hijack everything to google.com.hk.

  • The Google.com in English hyperlink on your fucking homepage won't fucking work. Is it a placebo button?
  • The hijack is IP based and mandatory. You can't choose google.com with hl=en_US or your settings in cookie & Google Profile. You leave your faithful users no choice, no option, no alternative way of searching, just like what the Chinese government did to you.
  • THe hijacking is FUCKING STUPID. Whenever I click ANY link start with www.google.com/*, it will be hijacked to google.com.hk. I don't see the point.
    e.g.
    http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_(complexity)&source=dictionary&type=de&usg=AFQjCNG79oEEFx_yppkBRnSnt3Oc4V7XTA
    Would be redirected to
    http://www.google.com.hk/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_(complexity)&source=dictionary&type=de&usg=AFQjCNG79oEEFx_yppkBRnSnt3Oc4V7XTA
    then redirected to
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_(complexity)
    It's only a waste of bandwidth, and instead of making things faster, it actually slow down my browsing experience, DRAMATICALLY!
  • It creates problems. On Google Buzz and Twitter iphone users are complaining about redirection loop. See more

Again I feel unfortunate about the current situation, but please fix it.

A Google China user.

5 Responses to “Dear Google: please don't hijack EVERYTHING to google.com.hk”

  1. visit http://www.google.com.hk click iGoogle then click Go to Google.com .... works for me

  2. 可以试一下以下步骤: 1 google.com/ncr 2 登陆igoogle 3 在igoogle的区域设置选择美国注意不是搜索偏好

    经过这三步就应该正常了

  3. 这样改Cookie也可以: Domain: .google.com Path: / Name: PREF Value: ID=任意16个16进制位:LD=en:CR=2 比如: ID=5765674674ea8711:LD=en:CR=2 最好把.google.com/的其它Cookies删掉

  4. 我还以为是个案……我的ipv6.google.com也被跳转到ipv6.google.com.hk,www.google.com/ncr也被跳转。 不过仅我的这个firefox的profile有问题(清了cookie也一样),chrome和opera都正常,所以确定是根据ip来强制跳转么?

  5. 谢3楼,解决了我的问题 :D

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