Google no longer lets you change domains to search different countries

Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by londons_explore on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:32PM (#15573094)

With default settings, the location of google search is based on IP address only.

The location is pretty reliable, unless you share your IP address (and the few hundred addresses either side of yours) with people from another place.

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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by chewz on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:57PM (#15573591)

It isn’t. I am using VPN server located in Netherlands but the provider is affiliated in UAE. Guess which Google page I am getting?

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Re:Google no longer lets you change domains to search differ... by averagewall on Saturday October 28, 2017 @03:43AM (#15574367)

Yes. I have to use a VPN for all Google services and it's a complete mess. Youtube shows me Japanese and some European language ads depending on where my VPN server happens to be at the time even though everything I actually do on Youtube and Gmail is in English, and even though I'm logged in. They seem to have no idea what language their users use. Search is just as bad, so is Bing.

Isn't there an old browser language setting standard that never really got used? Seems better than a special search setting for Google and another for every other site.

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