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| Thread ID: 113400 | 2010-10-18 03:25:00 | Switch To US News | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 1145826 | 2010-10-18 03:25:00 | My Google homepage has a few items on the bar - one of them is 'Latest Headlines' - which is all well n' good - but it's also all UK news. Now I like to read about the UK - but how can I change to the US News sources from the UK ones on Google? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1145827 | 2010-10-18 06:10:00 | On the left below Google News do you see a drop down giving you a list of country news services and is your regional setting US rather than UK?? They're next to each other on the list | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1145828 | 2010-10-18 14:58:00 | Nope - all I get it the option to open all the links in tabs or open "Latest Headlines'. Then I go straight to BBC News. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1145829 | 2010-10-18 19:21:00 | The only other reason could be that Google thinks your IP address is from the UK not the US.. | paulw (1826) | ||
| 1145830 | 2010-10-18 20:13:00 | May I suggest: english.aljazeera.net |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1145831 | 2010-10-18 20:16:00 | You should have this page in Google with a pull down menu in the upper left of the page alongside "Tops Stories" (this page is set to New Zealand) . Yours probably shows UK at the moment, but you should be able to select US . Works OK for me, and I've tried changing this setting to UK, US, and back to NZ without problems . May be worth leaving your screen on UK at the moment, you'll get a non-insular and broader coverage of what's going on in the rest of the world :devil |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1145832 | 2010-10-19 02:50:00 | I see now . We is talking apples and kiwi fruit . The news page that you refer too is all OK with me and I get US news there - but that's not the one about which I need some resetting . When you load Google for the first time, you get the "Getting Started" and your GMail icon if you already have GMail installed - and one of the things that is also there is an icon and words that say: "Latest Headlines" . THAT'S the one I want to change . If you click on it you get about 30-40 news stories that are relevant to some default area, and I get Merrie Olde England . Now - I don't dislike the news items - but let me tell you a few of them::: French Petrol Stations Run Dry ('petrol' is the operative and clue here) FIFA Widens Cup Bidding InquiryAssange Denied Swedish Residency Minister's 'Genital Prints' Slip Of Tongue Is Internet Hit Ancelotti Dodges Rooney Questions Blackburn 0-0 Sunderland HMS Ark Royal Scrapped In Review PSNI Seek £200M For Terror Fright C4 Captures Defends Harry Kidnapping Debut Firkens, Hides & Metres . I don't NEED to know that stuff . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1145833 | 2010-10-19 03:34:00 | I don't NEED to know that stuff . I agree . It speaks of Fleet Street at its tackiest worst . In Post #6, thumbnail, you should find "New Zealand" at the top of the left hand column . Under this you'll see headings I've selected and saved as my menu - Started, World, New Zealand etc . On the right hand side, click "Edit this Page", and you'll be able to make whatever configuration you want for your own individual menu (add/delete a section) . You should now be home and hosed so to speak . :confused: Hope this helps . |
WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1145834 | 2010-10-19 03:54:00 | I broke down a created a screen shot of what I have::: lh5.ggpht.com |
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