It seems to be a cookie based scheme, and probably your system had high privacy settings for cookies so the cookies written by google.de setting your preference to use google.com as the search engine could not be read by google.com that simply redirected you back to google.de (jp, ca, ru, ro or whatever)
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It seems to be a cookie based scheme, and probably your system had high privacy settings for cookies so the cookies written by google.de setting your preference to use google.com as the search engine could not be read by google.com that simply redirected you back to google.de (jp, ca, ru, ro or whatever)
It stopped responding, /.-ed. Hope there's a mirror somewhere.