[kalleboo]

And don't forget that no matter what your IP, no matter what your language setting, no matter what country you have set, Google Maps will still default you to showing a view of the continental United States. You're in Tokyo, searching for Yokohama? Here's Yokohama Sushi in downtown Los Angeles. For a while, the new web Google Maps redesign even removed the HTML5 Location API "my position" button. It's back now, but it should be defaulting to showing your location, like the mobile apps do.

[derefr]

The web version is actually localized by domain.

http://maps.google.com is the US-local Google Maps; http://maps.google.ca defaults to Canada; http://maps.google.co.jp sends you to Japan; etc.

[_delirium]

Huh, I didn't know that. But why geoIP-based redirects on some sites and not others? google.com redirects me to google.dk, and even blogspot.com redirects me to blogspot.dk, but maps.google.com doesn't take me to maps.google.dk.

[derefr]

I believe the logic was that "google.com" always does the redirect, because people tend to type google.com manually into their address bar a lot. Google has never bothered to set up any other redirects itself.

Other services that Google has acquired, though (e.g. Blogger, Youtube, etc.) may have come pre-set-up with redirection logic, and Google has mostly left that untouched.

[kalleboo]

Blogspot changed their behavior long after Google bought them.