Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

when I write an address in address bar it is automatically changed acc to my location - from .com to .country I'm in. Same with Google language. Can one stop it?

  • 1 reply
  • 22 have this problem
  • 4 views
  • Last reply by cor-el

Ewaa
Ewaa
more options

When I'm writing certain page address in address bar it gets changed according to my location. If I for example write google.com then I will end on page google.<country code> Of course I will also get the page in the language of the country I'm in (language which sometimes I do not speak). Can one do something so that if I write x.com then it STAYS com instead of redirecting me to a .country/language???

When I'm writing certain page address in address bar it gets changed according to my location. If I for example write google.com then I will end on page google.<country code> Of course I will also get the page in the language of the country I'm in (language which sometimes I do not speak). Can one do something so that if I write x.com then it STAYS com instead of redirecting me to a .country/language???

All Replies (1)

cor-el
cor-el
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

A lot of websites do a look up on your IP (reverse DNS lookup) and automatically send you to a site in the local language.
Google is one of them and you need to click the link at the bottom of the Google site to go to Google.com (www.google.com/webhp)

The only way to override that is to use an anonymous proxy that gives you an IP that locates you elsewhere.