212.56.71.174

[#1]

Hello,
Why does Google show the ip address in the header and when I click on a link from the list nothing happens      
[ I've used the search bar on firefox  and that has taken me to Google at 212.56.71.174 ]
Cheers.

[#2]

I entered from the command line:-

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jeremy@hector ~ $ wget 212.56.71.174 --2015-11-07 19:47:18--  http://212.56.71.174/ Connecting to 212.56.71.174:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://www.google.com/ [following] --2015-11-07 19:47:18--  http://www.google.com/ Resolving www.google.com (www.google.com)... 212.56.71.216, 212.56.71.249, 212.56.71.241, ... Connecting to www.google.com (www.google.com)|212.56.71.216|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: http://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=RlU-Vs2aKrLj8weUuSk [following] --2015-11-07 19:47:18--  http://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=RlU-Vs2aKrLj8weUuSk Resolving www.google.co.uk (www.google.co.uk)... 212.56.71.109, 212.56.71.118, 212.56.71.114, ... Connecting to www.google.co.uk (www.google.co.uk)|212.56.71.109|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘index.html’ index.html                          [ <=>                                                        ]  18.61K  --.-KB/s  in 0.01s  2015-11-07 19:47:18 (1.62 MB/s) - ‘index.html’ saved [19061]