Google's front page defaulting to Arabic on Firefox?

Question

I just typed google.com directly in my browser address bar, and it brought up Google's front page in Arabic! I didn't see anything on Google's blog about this. Is anyone else getting the same thing? My default browser is Firefox, and that's the only one that seems to be coming up in Arabic. I refreshed my browser window a couple times and it stayed in Arabic, then I opened a new browser window and went to www.google.com and it finally came up in English. I'm not seeing Arabic come up in Opera or IE. Any clues on what could be happening?

I have a wireless Internet connection on my laptop, but all of the IP addresses should be in the U.S.--unless Cingular's network is having some kind of blip on it. The closest I've come to any Arabic-speaking countries has been the East Coast--several thousand miles away.

My browser default is just http://www.google.com

Answer 1

I think your cookies are hosed! (This happened to me when I over cooked mine!)
Clear cookies then go to Googles home page. Just to the right of the search bar, there is a "Preferences" link. Click it and set it all to English.. (If you are on the Google page you can try this without clearing cookies it might work.)

But hey,as a New Testament guy, can't you read Arabic? Or was that Aramaic? We all need to increase our knowledge of the Middle East so just use it! (Just kidding!)

Answer 2

try this on the arabic google page, at the left bottom side there should be a link that says english google (along with some arabic letters)

hit that link and once that page opens(google in english) drag that tab to your 'Home' Button in your tool bar

just open up the english google(search for it if you cant get to it)
than drag its link to your 'Home' button

Answer 3

Your ISP was located in arab countries, it will automatically, give you an arabic google front page, just search anything, it will prompt you an english button, then you can book mark your english webpage.