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disable localized google search?

jman0war · 2011-01-25 15:34:14

When using google to search, it always filters results based on your geographic location. But what if you don't want to do that? I found a suggestion to use www.google.com/ncr ncr = no country redirection Which basically re-directs to just www.google.com And i'm pretty much right back to geographic localized searches.…

25-01-2011 04:34PM

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jman0war

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When using google to search, it always filters results based on your geographic location.
But what if you don't want to do that?

I found a suggestion to use www.google.com/ncr
ncr = no country redirection
Which basically re-directs to just www.google.com
And i'm pretty much right back to geographic localized searches.

Anybody know how to stop this annoyance?

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#2 26-01-2011 12:43PM

Capt'n Midnight

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at the end of the day google make money from localised ads

IIRC you can use something like tor to bounce your google search, you still get localised results, but from somewhat random locals

or you could dive down into advanced options

https://encrypted.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en (date usage rights...) and change region to any region

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