How to change from google.xx to google.com? [Solved/Closed]

I use Windows® Vista® and Internet Explorer 8.

I usually get redirected to http://www.google.co.nz

However, typing "/ncr" after the address takes me to that site with no redirection

eg:

http://www.google.com/ncr = google.com
http://www.google.co.uk/ncr = google.co.uk

Should be the same for other countries.

In Chrome under Options (the wrench) go to Default Search -> Manage

In the new window fill in the boxes as follows:

Name: Google.XX
Keyword: Google.XX
URL: http://www.google.XX/search?q=%s
** where XX is the specified country, in my case I used .ca for Canada

Type www.google.com/ncr it will redirect you to your english google web site

I did the following with Firefox and worked from three different countries:


1- Set Firefox's Home Page to http://74.125.127.100/

For example, Tools --- > Options --- > in the Home Page blank paste (http://74.125.127.100/)



2- In the top right corner of Firefox where the different search engines bar, click on the little down arrow, then choose Manage Search Engines. It will open up for you a new window. At the bottom of this window, click on "Get more search engines".

It will open for you a add-ons page, write in the search box "google" to narrow the adds-on. then scroll down to an add-on called "English language-specific Google search". Click on Download now and your are done !


Greetings

Use http://www.google.com/ncr where ncr equals "no country redirect"

Hi, I tried this and this worked on OPERA 10.1.

Click "Tools" Tab
Select "Preference"
Click "Search" Tab
Remove "Google" from the list
Add "Google" from the list
Click "Details"
Copy and Paste this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Close the screen


Just trry to search using Top Right Panel using "Google"

Let me know if this work of not on your system.

Cheers,

Liem KF

Unfortunately this is neither an ISP, Microsoft, or country-related issue. This is specifically a Google-related issue (if you want to identify it as an issue). When you go to Google's website it identifies your IP address and automatically determines which country that IP address is coming from. Once it determines that it will automatically redirect your page to the specific Google page they have created for that country. Google is able to identify the countries where websites are published, thus, it will prioritize your search results to the country where you are doing your search.

This is a smarter and better method by Google to provide people the best results possible. Obviously, for some people, specially tourists or people who simply want to search U.S. websites, this is annoying.

Now, to answer your question, there is a work-around for this. Not a solution but a "work-around". There are internal monitoring or scripting software out there that has the ability to monitor, for example, the websites you go to and automatically redirect it to an alternate page when it detects it. These are more effective as a parental control feature but you may use it for this specific cause.

What i use is AUTOMATE but this is quite a complicated software for beginners or non-IT people. You may configure Automate to block http://www.google.com.xx and automatically redirect it to http://www.google.com.

There are, of course, other alternatives out there, some better, some more complicated, and some that just doesn't quite hit what you truly want (like the Google.com in English link on Google's page). Hence, that is an effective workaround to your issue.

hi,
Normally on the home page you can see a link below the search box for google.com. no matter where ever you are

hope this helps

Hello,

When i write www.google.com so it's automatically open www.google.co.uk...i did try many times for solve this problem, but it's failed...if u have solution for this problem let me know...

Thank u

I have already tried that. Doesn't work either. Everything tried so far ended up with www.google.es instead of google.com as my browser.

The funny thing is that probably somebody at google thought that changing the google front page depending on the country was a good idea. :(

If you login as a Google user and set your preferences, they should stay the same no matter where you are. Does that not work for you?

From Google Support:

Trouble connecting: Google.com automatically takes me to another Google site

hi,

check on this video, It has the solution

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1486710/connect_to_google_com_with_no_country_domain/

if you get google with someother domain eg: google.co.uk >> plesae check the bottom line in it where it says "go to google.com"

Hope it helps,

I think I can solve this problem for at least the default search in Internet Explorer 8.

On the search field in Internet Explorer click on Manage Search Providers and delete all names of google. If you havent added more than google then you should at least one more temporarily that is by clicking on Finding more providers and choose for instance Yahoo Search and set it as default and then you can delete Google.

Ok now in find more search providers page there is a link which is Create Your Own Provider

By clicking on it you see three fields which is URL, name and encoding.

In URL enter

http://www.google.com/...

and name it like Google English

Keep Character Encoding as whatever appears and save it....


This fixes my problem and now whenever I search on google from Internet Explorer I dont see the dreaded language pages and search in English and it doesnt display anything else.

If you screw up or it doesnt work simply add Google from more search providers and set as default and delete this one you made and you can go back to how it was before.


I hope this helps.

Waseem.

I do have the same problem since yesterday when I changed my keyboard to include the Spanish set. I thought I only changed the keyboard layout and since then, every time I go to google.com (whether using Internet explorer or Firefox), it automatically changes to www.google.es. I checked the date on my computer and it is July 24, 2008. If you type http://www.google.com/intl/en/, then it goes to the English version. It suchs, though, because www.google.com is NOT www.google.es and there is no reason why we have to go to all that garbage to get a basic website. I know that www.yahoo.com does not have any issues with that.

u go to setting
then option
then u see default search
click on manage
click on google.es and a small bar will come out
erase the es and put .com
then press ok
do that three times and then restart com
and go to mange ang you will see the google icon
then close broser and open it again and search for something it will work
XD

When using Google.es just search Google on the search bar but the .com version.

Just click on it and it should go straight to it~!

Damn, Damn Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have tred safari and i can't access to google.com either. It is a vista preferences thing. From now on, I HATE windows. For some weird reason somebody at Microsoft thought that not allowing people at other countries to access www.google.com was a pretty neat idea.

Problem solved!!!

Apparently, my computer date was set up on 1 January 2013 or something like that, and all the sites that needed a time certificate refused to load on Safari and need a reconfirmation on IE.

I use Linux , I'm in the US on a US server and everything has worked fine for the past year until I installed Google Chrome. Uhm... IE. it's Google Chrome's fault. it redirects me to google.co.uk which is really weird... all of my settings are set to english, my region is set to US, my google preferences are set to english. It is really puzzling that it would redirect my www.google.com to google.co.uk

With all that said, www.google.com/ncr fixed my problem.