Google search gone geographical ?.

I just noticed a new trend in regard to Google, I did a search here in Australia and the first three pages of results are all .com.au domains. I have never noticed this before. Usually I have a proxy server enabled so I didnt notice when the results became geographical.
I knew the Adwords ads were geographical but the organic search wasn't.

I had the search the web button enabled, not the pages from Australia button.

This really sucks, whats the point of the internet when it won't let you search outside your geographic location.It's turning it into an intranet.

 

Yes I agree with you there to a degree but the .com.au results were interspersed through the first pages, not dominating them as they are now. Take Loans, .com.au sites dominate the first three pages, last time I looked a few months ago they were scattered through and definitely not in the first two results.

.com.au domains cost about $120 from memory so it looks like paying through the nose for the domain is finally paying off.

 

I've noticed the same thing. It wasn't always the same. There was always weighting towards the country your searching to but not to this degree

 

I've noticed this too, but I think in the past,from memory, after I did the search if I changed google.com.au in the address bar to just google.com I'd get non-geographical results.

I'm now wondering how I get the non-geo results, as I'm in Australia but have a .com aimed at the US market.

 

It's a hassle I don't know why they do this as nearly everyone I have asked say they use the internet to find stuff overseas, not locally.

I use Adwords for some of my sites most of which are aimed at the US market. The positions that Adwords indicate you are in are totally unreliable so I need to see exactly where they are.

So to do this I use a proxy server from the country I want to see the results from. There are plenty of these available, just do a search for proxy servers.
They can be pretty slow and some only last 10 minutes or so but they get the job done.
There are other ways but I have never found them to work very well, if at all.

 

Actually you don't need to use proxy when trying to see regional results for a certain country. Google is open to it, and you can access it by changing the extensions. For Example:

Google.com - Internaltional SERPs
Google.co.uk - for UK
Google.ca - for Canada
Google.com.au - for Australia

I think the reason why google did this is to narrow down the Search Engine result to the User localities. It is only logical that Australian would used the keyword "used car" expecting to get search results (SERPs) on used cars dealers IN Australia and not in the whole world.

 

That doesn't work, it always reverts back to Australia.

 

It's working on our end, and we're from Phil. Please try and see Google's Used Car Result in UK

 

@Cyclops - Try going to http://www.google.com/ncr (This URL ensures that you are not redirected to your nations Google site) and then try your search... It should be non-geo.