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If you are traveling and Google is trying to send you to a country specific site, you can use this address to tell Google you actually really want to go to Goog
by MarkSweep 14y ago
If you are traveling and Google is trying to send you to a country specific site, you can use this address to tell Google you actually really want to go to Google.com:
http://www.google.com/ncr
I believe the NCR stands for No Country Redirect.
But as the article points out, many websites make it harder than it aught to be use them from other countries. Some Japenese websites sometimes even actively try to prevent foreigners from using them by require text entry in hiragana and disabling copy-paste with javascript.
- patio11 14y agoNever explain with malice what is adequately explained by a decisionmaker who hasn't touched his computer in three weeks and needed the email responded to by his secretary saying "I don't want anyone copying our website!"</painful memories>
- aristidb 14y agoAt least for me, that does not work anymore. However, http://www.google.com/?hl=en http://www.google.com/?hl=en works.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- kristofferR 14y agoThey've removed this. They've also removed the "Google.com in English"-button from foreign Google.com languages.