Wednesday April 13th, 2011

When you travel a lot you'll notice that Google constantly tries to be smart in its attempt to serve the localized Google search page. Some people may like this but I find it pretty annoying. Especially if you're using Chrome it can be quite hard to get rid of this behavior.

Go to the Chrome preferences screen and click on "Manage Search Engines" on the Basics tab. Overwrite the first row with the following settings:

The trick is to use google.com/ncr which tells Google not to play funny games in trying to locate you. You can use this in any browser but I've used Chrome as an example since its search engine management is clumsy.