[still OT?] Google cookie problem - was [Re: [OT] Google search default lang.]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com>]

Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:08:24 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > Thanks for all the answers.
> >
> > I tried all of them and only 2 work:
> >
> > 1. putting http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en in the bookmark
> > bar of google-chrome (Thanks Camaleón). That is always in English.
> > 2. Changing the search engine to Yahoo. That gets me English. But I hate
> > Yahoo and its Micro$oft random result producer. I tried changing the
> > search engine to scroogle and that does not work.
> >
> > BTW now (13 Aug. 2011) the option in Google search to show results in
> > English has gone :-( All results are always in Spanish. So much for the
> > virtual world. I am in Oaxaca whether I like it or not. And I will speak
> > and write Spanish, whether I like it or not.
>
> I finally gave it up.
>
> The first Google page I open from bookmarks it remains in English but
> just that, the rest of the pages take their own preferences like if they
> were alive, kinda Google-HAL...
>
> (BTW, I cannot completely turn off "auto-completion" nor disabling that
> silly snapshot preview for the web pages...).
>
> Google is now forcing their users to use cookies

IS that your experience for http://www.google.com or whatever one 
has to do to access gmail?

I just did a Google search with both JavaScript and cookies disabled 
with no apparent problems. I plead guilty to using WinXP Pro as I've 
yet to find a Linux distro that meets some of my peculiar 
requirements (i do now hereby duck ;)






 (sorry Google but I
> always remove all the cookies when I close the browser) and login into
> your account to keep/set our settings (and not all of the setting can eb
> controlled from there), we like it or not and there is nothing we can do
> to change that damn no-sense policies ;-(
>
> Greetings,