Google NCR
Most of you would be knowing about this trick in navigating to Google generic website. But I just came to know only a few days before and hence thought I would share the information with others too.
Whenever you type http://www.google.com/, Google automatically tries to redirect you to your country-specific website. For me, it always redirects to http://www.google.co.in/ (Google India). But when we specifically want to navigate to Google Generic website for some reason, there are two ways to accomplish the same.
- Click the 'Go to Google.com' link at the bottom of the webpage that is displayed from http://www.google.co.in/
- To prevent this redundant click, you can opt to type http://www.google.com/ncr/ which would prevent the redirect from happening. The NCR stands for No Country Redirect. There is a brief discussion about this NCR over this forum.
You may also like to check out Google help documentation regarding the country redirections from here.
2 comments:
That has to be http://www.google.com/ncr instead of http://www.google.com/ncr/
The additional "/" at the end of the URL will assume that you're trying to view a page inside their server and you'll just get an error message instead of google search page.
Thank you brahmma.
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