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For Google, you should type in Google.com/ncr . The NCR means no country redirect and you get standard google. I traveled a lot and learned this trick along the
by vrc 5y ago
For Google, you should type in Google.com/ncr . The NCR means no country redirect and you get standard google. I traveled a lot and learned this trick along the way. But your point is well made
- Corinthian 5y agoI was totally unaware of that, thank you, have an uptick!
- nvr219 5y agoI learned this the other day because Google thinks I want google.co.hk when I access from my VPN IP address (which is in a New Jersey data center). I filled out their "wrong country" form and of course haven't heard back and don't expect to. The /ncr workaround means I have to go to google.com/ncr before searching instead of searching from the browser search bar - annoying!
- anthropodie 5y agoyou could right click ncr search bar to add it as search engine. All you have to do then is switch the default search engine.
- nvr219 5y agoHow do I do this on iPhone/iPad?
- valenterry 5y agoIs there something like that as well to make the region match the preferred browser settings (in terms of language)?
- rsync 5y ago"For Google, you should type in Google.com/ncr . The NCR means no country redirect ..." Is there a similar trick that specifies I only want search results that contain the search terms I searched for ? Probably too much to ask ...
- lwansbrough 5y agoYou can put the phrase in quotes "" to identify you want that exact match, and I think you can do -phrase to remove results.
- rsync 5y agoNo and no. You can put phrases in quotes and some of the initial results may rearrange themselves to reflect this intention that you've signaled but, overall, you'll still get many results that either contain different arrangements of those terms or don't contain them at all. The minus sign has even hazier functionality and completely falls apart if you are searching --command-line options, etc. It's not like this isn't a solved problem ... altavista had properly functioning (and complex) boolean operators that worked to give you very precise search results. The reason you can't do that with google is that google doesn't want you to.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoYou are the product. Their goal is to generate revenue with ads and links to their paying customers on the results page. Giving you precise results works against this objective.
- xbmcuser 5y agono you are an edge case the rest of the world ie non tech users prefer the way google understands the queries and answers them.
- Cipater 5y agoThe word "prefers" implies that the choice was made after evaluating other options. The word you should use is "accepts".
- sanitycheck 5y agoThe rest of the world clicks on more ads this way. I believe that's their most important metric.