Mexico Medical Student |

While searching results on something at Google today, I wound up back at the home page, and saw this:

What’s wrong with this? There’s no cool Independence Day graphic! I was at the real google.com, not google.com.mx, where I’d see this:

(by the way, this is hilarious because the button for “I’m feeling lucky” has been translated to “Voy a tener suerte,” which literally says, “I will have luck,” or as one would colloquially read it, “I’m gonna get lucky.” I don’t think Google has that much control over everyone quite yet…hehe)

Then I thought, “I wonder if I’m not seeing it because it knows my IP is in Mexico?” I then VPN into UH (becoming a local node on the campus network via a secure connection, so although physically here, I’m virtually “in Houston”), and voila:

How’s about them apples? Google intentionally doesn’t display the cool art for anything other than people in the USA, even if they go to the USA Google address. Party poopers.

(More on the background of Google’s artwork here)