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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by timthelion on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:49PM (#15572849)
This is a real pain point for me as a programmer in Prague. I want all programming language questions to return English results, because the Czech language has no stack-exchange ;), but I want all commercial queries to give Czech results, because I cannot even buy something in the US, even if I wanted to, they just won't ship here. This doesn't end up working very well unfortunately, and I don't know how to get the behavior that I want.
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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by TomMarius on Saturday October 28, 2017 @11:41PM (#15577862)
I am in Czechia as well and I never had this problem. Searching in English gives me relevant results (about the same as if I was in the USA) and searching in Czech gives me Czech results. Shopping works OK even with English searches - I'd get English speaking Czech shops or German/UK Ebay and Amazon.

I have all computer/browser locales set to US English, Google uses that but I remain on the .cz site. Works flawlessly.

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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by natoliniak on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:18PM (#15573027)
I use one browser with a geographically based proxy and another one straight trough. Also, commercial VPNs are cheap and pretty reliable these days (the vendor I use has pops in majority of countries). Just a silly game to play with the content providers who are isolating users into specific market regions.
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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by timthelion on Saturday October 28, 2017 @06:13AM (#15574612)
So now I need a VPN to buy cat food online ;) !
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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by drusepth on Friday October 27, 2017 @08:33PM (#15573355)
That sucks. One workaround you could use would be to have one browser profile for American searches and one for Czech searches, and flip between the two, even though it's a solution to make things suck just a little bit less.
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