Tell HN: Google seems to have changed ncr (no country redirect)

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10 years ago

A useful feature of google search is ncr, no country redirect, which prevents geolocation redirection to the localized home page. Useful if you travel a lot, only want results in English if you live in a non-English speaking country, and so on.

The url used to be

https://www.google.com/ncr

Unfortunately this seems to have stopped working recently (clear cookies and caches first for anyone using this to see). After not a little search effort as it's either an unannounced change (or a bug?), you now need:

http://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=cr

Hope this helps anyone relying on ncr.

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