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google home page problem - Wrong country

I recently travelled to Italy, and I logged on to my home computer in Houston Texas using gotomypc.com. Now I am back home in Houston and I have a problem. When I open Chrome the home page shows "https://www.google.com/" but the text on the page is Italian. Chrome asks me if I want to translate the page to English. I tried rebooting my computer but it did not help. Is it in the cookies or cache files saved on the PC?

mark_harris231

Is it just the Google page, or are other sites in Italian as well?

You might want to check your Google language setting:

Google Language

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MarkVolt

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I checked and Google has English as my preferred language. I will try the link from awawada now.

MarkVolt

ASKER

I tried the link but Google preferences for home page and search engine seem to be correct. Nothing shows Italian. Maybe I should un-install and then re-install chrome?

mark_harris231

Do other sites show up in Italian or just Google?

If you have another browser installed (e.g., IE or Firefox), do they display Google in English or Italian?

I don't think a re-install is necessary - just need to isolate the scope of the issue.

awawada

First download Ccleaner
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/portable

and clean your temp files after let me know.

MarkVolt

ASKER

I had trouble finding the "cog" image, all I could find was the "wrench" which did not have the same language selection option. Somehow, I still don't know how except that I stayed on the Italian page and was looking around on it, I stumbled on the "cog" and found that it was set to "Italian", even though under the "wrench" settings it showed "English". Seems this is a bug in Google Chrome maybe? Anyway, thanks for the link and help, without which I would never have found the "cog" link.

awawada

You may also try this:
http://blog.armazine.com/2012/how-to-make-english-as-the-default-language-for-google-chromes-search/

awawada

Nice that it worked. Thanks!