I travel a ton. In fact, I live outside the US. When I search from my firefox Google Search box (or from Google.com), I get the results specific to the country I’m in.
That sucks so much balls it’s almost a reason to switch to Yahoo or Live.
After i search normally, i have to re-search by going up and typing google.ca (US lite) or google.co.uk (US Classic) and search there to not get the retarded Google Brazil (or Google Poland, or whatever fucking country i’m in at the time) search results.
Does anyone know how I can change the standard search box in Firefox to only show me Google Search Results from a US Data Center?
Update: Firefox Answered here (thank you Stefan Juhl) and Google.com answered here.
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Click the “OpenSearch plug-in Google USGoogle Toolbar” link near the bottom, after the “Change the plugin”-button.
That should do it.
If you’d want more options with different localization, just change the ‘gl’ parameter in the url to be the country code for the localization you want.
Fucking brilliant Stefanjuhl!
Thanks man.
Just add the URL paramater gl= for wherever you want the location to be. US is the “normal” result you’d expect in the US.
Two ways:
1. Go to http://google.com/ncr and that will fix things to be permanently for google.com. Sometimes it forgets, so just type it in again.
2. Go to a US-specific datacenter by browsing directly to the IP address. Not sure how you’d find that out…
Pierre
You’re welcome.
If you don’t want to install yet another FF plugin which will suck up more memory… simply go to:
c:\program files\mozilla firefox\searchplugins
Modify google.xml and add a new Param … name=”gl” value=”us” … and while you’re in there you can also add Param name=”pws” value=”0″ to ensure you don’t get personalized results if you care about that.
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I use Google global (http://www.redflymarketing.com/blog/google-global-view-results-different-locations/) to geo-locate quickly and easily. It’s not quite the same as actually searching from that country but it’s a better approximation (and easy).
It also has a feature however to allow you to enter an IP address to search from, I haven’t tested this extensively but I suspect this might do what you need.