In google they just check your location, and redirect you to your country
google.

If you don't want to see it happen, simply click at the google in English
link at the right bottom. Then when you write google.com next time you will
always go to english page.

By the way for some other sites (apache.org for example) they check your
language preferences order, and redirect you after this criteria. So it is
always a good practice to put English (or else) to first place on your
language prefs.

"John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.komm> wrote in message
news:3FCFE9A7.9050307@yahoo.komm...
> When I go to www.google.com in Netscape it always defaults to the
> Japanese Google; doesn't do it in IE. Can someone tell me why? Not a big
> issue, just want to know.
>
> John W.
>