Google thinks I live on another continent.

Or maybe it's stuck in a time warp and the programmers at Google have figured out time travel?

As most people who are aware of me on here know, I'm an expat Brit, but I've lived here in SE Michigan since before Google was founded. Despite many of the problems of big brother watching you, one nice thing about our software overloads at Google monitoring my every move is that they know where I am at all times. Or they used too. Ever since I went back to the UK and Italy to visit friends and family at the end of June, Google thinks I'm located back at my mother’s address in England.

Now, Googling the issue via Google throws up lots of information telling you to check your IP address as the root of the issue, but it can't be that as I use multiple devices on multiple systems with (obviously) multiple different IP Address. If I Google a type of business, name of a company, store etc., Google returns possibilities around where I grew up. This is on any and all devices. Three lap tops at home, my computer at work and both my personal and work iPhones.  IOS, IOX and Windows devises in different locations.  This can’t be blamed on the ghost of Steve Jobs or the incompetence of Microsoft unless they are both now run by the same Cabal. 

On laptops this extends to searching for directions in Google maps.  If you put in a place, business etc. and hit ‘my location’ for directions it tells me no directions can be found because the Atlantic ocean is in the way. If I do the same on a mobile devise I have GPS enabled to it isn’t a problem there.

Any idea how the Berkley I can sort this out, or do I have to accept I’m really in a vegetative dream state back at my mother’s house and reality as I know it is just a projection of my subconscious and that Google is actually correct?

You don't happen to have VPN connection to England, do you?

Pete Gossett said:

You don't happen to have VPN connection to England, do you?

+1

Google knows where you are by your IP if you don't have location services turned on on your phone. If you use a VPN service for work or personal reasons you are located where they are located. You can change your primary nameserver to go thru your ISP when you want to over-ride that so you don't send those dark web addresses thru your employer's nslookups :)

No, I have a VPN for work, but didn't use it in the UK.

Sounds like you set your home address to a UK address in your Google account somewhere.

If you search for "what is my ip address," what do you see?

Does the same thing happen in a private browsing session?

Recently fought that at work.  Googles thought a VM was in India.  After you have set everything possible in your OS, then there is a cookie left behind somewhere.  There's a google page you can go to that clears the cookie and fixes it.  Try googling up "Google thinks I'm in India."

HA!  checking what Gameboy said, my IP shows correctly here at work in Dearborn, but it's a Chrome issue.  I use Chrome on all my devices, but I just tried Explorer on my work laptop and Safari (which I can't delete but have banished to a far off screen) on my phone and they both know where I really am.  

Now to follow up on the good Doctors suggestion on a mystery cookie, it's hard to believe I've missed any cookies if you've seen my waste line, but you never know!

I spent a few months getting ads in French...  I really don't get that,unless some programmer in Bangalore thinks all Canadians speak French.  Fixed now, with no effort on my part.

I sometimes wish teh googles didn't know where I was sometimes. 

Streetwiseguy said:

I spent a few months getting ads in French...  I really don't get that,unless some programmer in Bangalore thinks all Canadians speak French.  Fixed now, with no effort on my part.

I get the same thing. All the time.

I figured it was because there seem to be a lot of good deals on bikes on Kijiji Gatineau

T.J. said:

I sometimes wish teh googles didn't know where I was sometimes. 

It's possible. Google freaks out whenever I log in from a new location, even if it's just a few miles from one of my regular locations.

OK, after you have made sure everything has you not in another country, including your default search provider, and you've wiped cookies, etc., then try visiting

https://www.google.com/ncr

So a week after I cleared my Chrome cookies and Cache...... Stupid chrome thinks I'm back at my mothers house again.  Still only stupid chrome, If I go to Google on Explorer, it has my location correct still.  Time to quit Chrome I guess.

Is it possible that you logged into g-mail on your mom's computer while you were there, which automatically signs you "into chrome", and someone has recently used chrome on that computer with your login (to chrome, not e-mail) still being active? You can have your mom check to see if chrome displays your avatar in the upper right corner of the page when she brings up the google homepage. If it does, having her click on the avatar and click "Sign Out" should resolve the issue for you.