Google Search location

Anyone else having difficulty changing their location in Google Search?

Mine has settled on Birmingham - which it presumably picks up from a server location (?), and reverts to that even when I try to change it.It's only been happening the last few days - prior to that it would happily accept that I am in Droitwich Spa

Hi Michael,

Oh yep! We have a range of locations in the office on different staff machines, all of which don't seem to allow it to be changed.

My personal machine won't adjust from Cheltenham which I have not been to since I was 11.

What is a Google Search location?

When I Google, I can only either search the Web or UK Pages only; the latter only cuz I subscribe to Google UK.

I'd guess it's the location Google 'auto-detects' for where you're located. It's on the left side of the Google search page just above where it says Change Location. Mine currently says London, UK but tomorrow it'll be somewhere else.

In reply to a post by aquiss:

Hi Michael,

Oh yep! We have a range of locations in the office on different staff machines, all of which don't seem to allow it to be changed.

My personal machine won't adjust from Cheltenham which I have not been to since I was 11.

I could set mine to Droitwich until a week or so ago, but it just rejects that now. I have found though that it will accept my postcode. It's the same on FF and IE

In reply to a post by cheshire_man:

I'd guess it's the location Google 'auto-detects' for where you're located. It's on the left side of the Google search page just above where it says Change Location. Mine currently says London, UK but tomorrow it'll be somewhere else.

It uses it for targeting advertising local to where you are - it's not life threatening, but I don't want anyone to think I'm in Birmingham!!

In reply to a post by michaelh:

It uses it for targeting advertising local to where you are - it's not life threatening, but I don't want anyone to think I'm in Birmingham!!