Comments on: Stop Google.com Redirecting to Local Country or Language Version of Google

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 09:53:45 +0000

You are a hero! Thanks for this tip and thanks for all the comments!

By: Bart

Bart — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:36:05 +0000

I still have an issue after trying all these things (http://www.google.com/ncr and change language settings).

I’m in The Netherlands right now and when I do a search for example ‘garnier.com’, it shows their US website in English in the search results. Then when I click on it, it redirects me to the local Dutch site.
If I do a search for ‘Match.com’, it shows their English homepage. Then when I click on it, it redirects me to lexa.nl, their Dutch version of Match.com. Could someone explain why this happen and how I fix this? Thanks so much.

By: Zenón

Zenón — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:52:28 +0000

At this time nothing is working for me to get the google us version.

By: Callyope

Callyope — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:02:28 +0000

I am in Germany, and when I click http://www.google.com/ncr
I am always redirected to google.de.

The only option to land on google. com, is to click on the google.com/ncr link directely from this page: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=873

Hope it helps someone

By: Hussain

Hussain — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:43:58 +0000

Using Internet Explorer, the Google search page just decided to switch to another language. Looking at the links, I could open the language preferences page which listed a couple of dozen languages I had never heard of (is Cherokee a real written language?) but English wasn’t an option. Will someone at Google please add English as an option to all pages?

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:05:35 +0000

This is interesting but since I don’t want to have google as my home page is there a way of setting this as the default Google site in the search box top right hand side of safari?

By: Oleg

Oleg — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:55:42 +0000

A great tip. I live in Latvia and can’t stand the local redirect as I mostly research foreign markets and the insistent local setting was really in the way. Thanks for the great tips. What does the encrypted.Google do – same as Chrome incognito? I am also sick of the nosy ads.

By: Horrible

Horrible — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:33:16 +0000

This is annoying me so badly. For gods sakes, if I type in http://www.google.com than that´s where I want to go! The search results for different country google are often very different and don´t find what I need. Thank you for the tip, hopefully it will solve thys annoying problem.

By: Makka

Makka — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:39:36 +0000

I’m not from the USA, so I’ve never thought about this problem. Every country just has it’s own Google URL, so we just go to google.de, google.be, google.nl, google.fr, google.co.uk, google.is and so on. It doesn’t matter where I am, I’ve just set the Google URL of my own country as the start page in Safari, so Google is always in my own language.

I’ve never thought about people from the USA using google.com and being redirected. Isn’t there a google.us you can use?

No. I’ve just tested that, but when I go to google.us, I’m just directed to my local Google URL. Strange, I expected google.com to redirect to the local Google URL and google.us not to redirect and just to be in English, just like all other local Google pages are written in the local language.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:19:32 +0000

Nice tip. I always have this problem since I travel internationally all the time. Wonder if there is a similar one for Yahoo?

By: tim

tim — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:07:27 +0000

i am using encrypted.google.com instead and it’s definitely wont tie to local google.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:55:46 +0000

LOL, I ran into this on vacation and I can’t speak a lick of Spanish. Never knew about NCR though, good thing to bookmark for the future