The generic Google site, or the Google site for the U.S. (www.google.com) is always the pioneer in utilizing new technologies and improvements that Google develops and makes. Despite that there are customized and localized Google regional sites (e.g. www.google.com.hk) in most parts of the world, many English-speaking users would rather use the generic site. Nevertheless, Google automatically redirects traffic to your regional site based on your location. If you want to use the generic site, you’ll have to click “Go to google.com” every time, and it sometimes switches back and forth when you are using different Google services which is a little annoying.
To deal with this, you can use the “No Country Redirect” URL www.google.com/ncr or http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en (until now I don’t know the difference between these two sites but I use the prior one). However, you have to bookmark this location or type the “ncr” every time; otherwise the browser will still turn to the regional site. The way to solve this is to
- delete all your cookies,
- restart the browser, and
- visit www.google.com/ncr so that your browser will remember your preference next time.
To delete all your cookies in Chrome, go to Options, under the Under the Hood tab, open Content Settings under Privacy. Under the Cookies tab, open "Show cookies and other site data…”. Finally, click “Remove all” in the pop-up window.
Note that if your homepage is set to be your regional Google site, or www.google.com, this will not work since when you restart your browser, the regional site is loaded and this site will be remembered instead. So make sure the first Google site you visit after clearing your cookies is the generic site by changing the homepage setting.
After this, whenever your type www.google.com in your location bar, the clean and simple Google.com will be shown. Tell me how it works and enjoy browsing!
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