Though the question is still marked as “not a real question” (even after the edit by Michael Mrozek), the answers by User Mr. Smith – Stack Overflow and User FrustratedWithFormsDesigner – Stack Overflow are very valuable, as they describe NCR (no, not the National Cash Register company, but No Country Redirect).
The NCR url will force google.com to stay at the .com domain, not redirect the local country domain:
After that, none of the other Google URLs will auto-redirect to the country site any more: good thing!
Later I found a few other nice pages explaining NCR too (:
- Stop Google.com Redirecting to Local Country or Language Version of Google.
- Google.com automatically takes me to another Google site – Web Search Help.
- What Is Google NCR? | eHow.
- redirect – How does google deal with www.google.com/ncr? – Stack Overflow.
- Tech Dreams: Force Google.com not to redirect to Google.co.in or to Any Localized Google Site.
Another thing is that (if you did not yet know about NCR), you accidentally can end up with the wrong Google.com language. Resetting that is easy too as it answered at How can I force my browser to search Google in English? – Super User.
- Goto http://www.google.com/preferences#languages
- Reset the Google text language
- Reset the Google search results language
–jeroen
via: How to access the main Google homepage (no country redirect) – Stack Overflow.
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