I am in Iceland now and tried to go to Google to search for something. I was surprised to see this page appear.

Fortunately the interface is very simple and I could also read the link at the bottom for Google.com in English but I would have been lost of a more text based interface had appeared in Icelandic. I tried out some other major sites to see if they also redirected to a page for Iceland. I thought Google or the local ISP (whoever that is) might have been redirecting google.com to save on bandwidth. In my informal survey only Google returned a "localized" page so I am guessing now that this is something that Google is doing. Pretty cool if you speak Icelandic.

Read the complete post at http://www.grokdev.com/Blogs/scott/2008/01/18/WhatWasTheURLForGoogleAgain.aspx