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Disable google’s regionality

03/05/2006 7:02 | Internet, Software | 4 replies | 2515 views | RSS

Don’t you just hate it when you go to Google for the very first time – when you have reinstalled your system, or cleared all your cookies, and you end up at http://www.google.be (for Belgium – google.nl for the netherlands and so on…)

This has nothing to do with your regional settings or the language of your OS, or even the language option in Internet Explorer. Google has a list of IP ranges per country. Google knows (almost) all IPs from big ISPs, and serves you with a localized version of Google.

To disable this utterly retarded option, simply browse to this url 1 time, and you should end up at http://www.google.com ;)

http://www.google.com/ncr

If you clear your cookies, google forgets it again, just surf to the url again…

On 11 July 2006 at 02h08, anonymous wrote

Thanks a lot for the tip!
It was driving me mad…. you see, google people don’t think at all. Now suppose I stay in another country for a while. Cmoon, why shoul I enjoy looking at the local google site in a foreign language that I hardly understand?! I’ve looked for the solution for a long time. Now you’ve helped me. Thanks again.
On 11 July 2006 at 07h14, Selder wrote

I know, it was driving me insane too!

And nobody wanted to believe me that Google checked your IP address instead of your browser language settings … they were wrong! :)
On 9 August 2006 at 06h51, anonymous wrote

cheers :-)

Jelle
On 21 February 2007 at 08h46, eric wrote

your great