Other English speaking countries and Google use

[Newjabber]

I always type in the .com but unless I type in the 'no country redirect' - Google

Exellent, this has been driving me nuts. It´s the same with addwords. NO i DONT want everything to be in danish. It´s the same with poker sites. GEO targeting can be extremly annoying sometimes.

[faststeady]

in australia we have the choice to search whole web, or we can choose to search australian sites only.

if you search for play online poker , you get vastly different results depending on which you choose.

You do have to specifically check the search aust only button, or you get the worldwide search results.

[Prenut]

in australia we have the choice to search whole web, or we can choose to search australian sites only.

if you search for play online poker , you get vastly different results depending on which you choose.

You do have to specifically check the search aust only button, or you get the worldwide search results.

When you type google.com into your address bar are you redirected to google.com.au ?

[Prenut]

I use Google.com.au
Are the search results different depending on your country? or is that only if you choose to 'show only pages from Australia' ??

Yes the results are different google.com.au as opposed to google.com

[faststeady]

yes prenut, you always go through google.com.au

[Notspot]

I often get redirected to co.uk (dunno why sometimes I do and sometimes I don't) but the results are the same as the .com ones (for the terms I'm interested in anyway). To get UK specific results I have to click the 'pages from the uk'.

[JohnG]

Here (Canada) pretty sure the default is to redirect to .ca but personally I just clicked the "take me to Google.com" button and then I was never taken to .ca again. I'm pretty sure by default it redirects to local and it's up to the user to specify if they prefer .com.

[northwester]

In Canada, it's google.ca by default. At the bottom of google.ca there's a link to google.com if they prefer to use that.