Strange, I always thought they were doing some kind of eugenics program.
On 3/20/10, Micah Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know that Google is somehow involved with Tor though I don't understand >> it >> much at all. Just that it can show up in different languages when on the >> web. > > Tor has exit nodes all over the world, and Google geolocates your IP > address to decide what language to use. So if you're using Tor and the > exit node is in Germany (e.g. to Google it looks like you're in > Germany), then Google will show up in German. > > Google actually isn't involved in Tor. There's lots of websites that > geolocate your IP address and behave differently depending on what > part of the world they think you're in. I believe hulu.com won't let > you watch video if you're not in the US, and BBC won't let you stream > video unless you're in the UK. > > Micah > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with > unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/ > *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
