Prevent Google from redirecting you to a country-specific page

Google has adopted the local domain system where search results are specific and closer to the location you are searching from. If you have already observed carefully, when you type and enter google.com in the address bar of the browser, you are automatically redirected to the Google domain of your country. For example, if you are in India, you will be redirected to www.google.co.in.

Now, this behavior can sometimes become very annoying. This is because you may want to search on www.google.com instead of the country domain (as results may vary).

So is there a way to prevent the redirect and force open www.google.com? Yes there is. And when you want to do that, just press the URL http://www.google.com/ncr where ncr means no country forwarding .

You only need to do this once. This results in a cookie being set on your browser, then when you try to reach www.google.com there will be no redirect.

If you ever want to return to the original behavior, simply clear your browser cookies. Let us know if this helps.