[digitus]

I purchased my BB 8700g from SingTel a week ago. The time zone has been set correctly etc etc, but when I point the internet browser at Google I get sent to the Canadian Google home page. How weird is that! This and my current connectivity problems suggest that SingTel has screwed up the service books that it pushes to the 8700g. Older moldel BB's from SingTel don't have the Google and connectivity issues.

[KonTiki]

Use http://www.google.com/ncr which is the no country redirect webpage for google.

[digitus]

Thanks! What I'm curious about is why the browser automatically looks for the Canadian Google.

[digitus]

Hey! I my browser still goes to Canadian Google even when I use www.google.com/ncr!!!

[CanuckBB]

digitus,

Are you on a BES? could the BES be located in Canada?

Google looks at the registered country of your IP address. Your APN is in Canada.

[gdpmumin]

Clear your content and cookie caches on the device and see if that helps.

[digitus]

Yes I am on a BES, but its located in Amsterdam! And my APN is in Singapore.

[digitus]

No it didn't. I'm starting to think that my service books are screwed up. After 1.5 weeks of trying SingTel still hasn't been able to figure out why I the IM clients don't work on my 8700g. And my BES admin in Amsterdam doesn't know why I can't access the intranet.

[dcfella]

I have the same problem. My bb keeps going to google cananda whenever i go to google.com(which is also my homepage). I cleared cookies, cache, no luck. What to do?

[CanuckBB]

Originally Posted by dcfella

I have the same problem. My bb keeps going to google cananda whenever i go to google.com(which is also my homepage). I cleared cookies, cache, no luck. What to do?

Accept it. Resistance is futile.

Repeat after me: Maple syrup good. Grits bad.

[headtailgrep]

I agree with Canuck. You have been assimilated. Why not ask google your question? does it really matter what google site you go to?

[Raven]

I have the same problem since my bes in up north also...
Just scroll to the bottom of the google.ca page and pick the "go to Google" link and you will switch to the google.com.

[amaiman]

Most Blackberry web traffic goes through RIM's servers, and RIM is based (and has its server physically located) in Canada, hence google.ca. Bookmarking the NCR is the best solution.

[toddz]

I have a similar but more annoying situation. When I do a google search for a business, it sometimes shows a couple of google maps as the first links. This would be very useful, but when I click on the link it takes be to google maps Canada and never loads the image. The odd part is that even if a web page hard links some google maps that work fine on my PC, the same ones on my BlackBerry redirect and to google Canada and then never load the images or maps.

Really quite shabby in my opinion since most other features work great including stand alone google maps (which I would use but doesn't do searches as well in some situations).

toddz

Edit: Okay, I was able to get it to not use google maps Canada by changing to /ncr but it still doesn't load the map image. Must be some BlackBerry limitation or how the map is sent from the server.