Do you live abroad or are traveling around the world and want to keep searching as if you were home? Google Chrome is too smart in the sense that it detects where you are and redirects your searches to the local Google search engine. Google Chrome is not too smart or too friendly when it comes to give the user the power to control if they prefer to use the current location or their original one when it comes to perform searches.
I live in Paris, France, but perform most of my searches in English and want results to be mostly in English language. Here is how to cheat…
Go to Preferences/Basic and click on Manage to the right of Default Search. Now double click on the first entry Google and make sure you have google.com and not google.fr or anything like that under Keyword. You must restart Chrome for this to work.
Next time you type your search directly on the address bar, Chrome will no longer automatically take you to your local Google but will retrieve the results directly from google.com
Another trick is that in order to delocalize your homepage, if you wish to have google.com and not google.fr or local Google as your homepage is simply to do the following once. You type on your address bar google.com/ncr–this will do the trick.
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