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caddelle
Level 1
7/2/09
Since the update of I google in South Africa, lost the tab to search south african websites only.

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londonsangel
Level 1
7/2/09
I'm so glad I'm not the only one!!! I'm so frustrated, I just cannot get to www.google.co.za, it keeps directing to www.google.com, even my igoogle news tab shows US news instead of SA now... and all my settings point me to SA... can someone please help us!
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colinkshirley
Level 1
7/2/09
yes! dump google and use www.bing.com - microsoft's browser
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londonsangel
Level 1
7/2/09
mmm its quite nice
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Milou
Level 1
7/2/09
Quite confusing:
I use Safari on a MAC and today I cannot get access to google.co.za, always redirected to google.com;
same thing using Chrome (with Parallels Desktop);
BUT with Opera its working normally.
Anyone has an idea?

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londonsangel
Level 1
7/3/09
well i can get on with internet explorer but not anymore with firefox... i dunno what google has done but even my news tab on igoogle that used to show south african news is gone and replaced with US news... they've messed up something..
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McGuyver
Level 1
7/3/09
Really strange!! I recently noticed that the tab to "Search New Zealand sites Only"  disappeared from my Google search page. My wife uses the same version of Mozilla and she still has the option. Dunno who did what! Really frustrating, but www.bing.com is working very well, thanks for that idea colinkshirley!
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Jem
Google Employee
7/4/09
Is this still happening? I'm not seeing it on my computer.

You may want to try clearing your cache before you try to access Google.co.za again -- make sure you're viewing the latest version of the page -- instructions linked below.

Cheers,
Jem
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londonsangel
Level 1
7/4/09
Yep still happening :(

Cleared cache, cookies, history etc. I'm i'm not on igoogle I can get onto www.google.co.za and do a SA web search. But as soon as I click on igoogle it goes to http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en, even when i type www.google.co.za it still directs immediately to http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en. Its so strange, still cant get my SA news back either, there's just the option for US news.
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rustybrick
Level 3
7/6/09
Jem, are you sure this is something Google is not testing?  I think this might be a test of some sorts and not a bug.
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londonsangel
Level 1
7/7/09
Yay, its all back to normal now! whatever you did to change it back pleeeeaaaase leave it as is :) i can search SA again and have my SA news tab back :) thanks!
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Jem
Google Employee
7/8/09
Hey everyone -- I posted a little more info about what's going on at the thread linked below.

Thanks,
Jem
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