Google redirects their homepage to a country specific domain based on the user’s IP address. For example, if I am in India and type in Google.com, I am automatically redirected to Google.co.in.
While this is a very useful feature, especially while carrying out a local search, it is desirable to shift to Google.com page and carry out the search.
Restrict Google’s Redirection Page
You can also restrict Google from redirecting you to a country specific search or results page by appending the URL with “/ncr”.
So for example you can type in “google.com/ncr” in your browser and you will not be redirected to a local domain like say “Google.co.in”.
Hence no matter wherever you are in the world, it will restrict Google from redirecting you to a country specific page.
NCR is a abbrevation of No Country Restriction. Thanks to Gokul for the tip.
Do try this out and drop in your comments.
Link: Google NCR
12 Comments
@Adi:
Your Most Welcome! 🙂
Same trick works for blogger/ blogspot blogs
Example: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ncr
@Rakshit: Thanks. Was not aware of it working on blogsport.com blogs.
You can also click on the google.com link in the bottom-right corner……:)
@Anshuman: I know, for that you have load up Google.com first on the browser to find the link. This way it works from the address bar itself. 😉
i think during our search google should ask for an option if we want the search to be global of for our country only….
@Chirag: They redirect to country-specific domains, mainly for showing relevant information for local services, especially from say a mobile phone.
Sometimes NCR doesn’t work. You can simply change language preferences here, https://www.google.com/preferences
@Maksat: Thanks for the link, but this is not really so much about language preferences but about redirection to country-specific domain. For instance we in India are re-directed to google.co.in but that page is not in a different language. For changing the language we have to go to the link you mentioned.
https://google.com
also works. but you always need to type https before google.com
also there is chrome and
firefox extension https everywhere
which redirects every site to https if it is supporting to .
@Pratap: Thanks for the Chrome and Firefox extensions but I do not see how it stops redirecting to country specific URL on google. If I type in https://google.com it still re-directs me to https://google.co.in webpage.
@Aditya: I thinks it works only in chrome.