Overseas proxy makes Google Chrome think I am in Germany or Netherlands
I am in the UK and my firm has an outsourced webscanning service which routes our traffic through either Germany or The Netherlands.
Whenever I do a search using Chrome's Address Bar I get either the .de or .nl results page.
Is there any way to force Chrome to use the .co.uk ignoring the location it thinks I am in?
Internet access is very locked down so alternate proxy suggestions will probably not work.
5 Answers
To force this I added a specific Google UK search entry and made it default:
Spanner icon -> Settings -> Basics tab -> Default search section -> Manage button
Click the Add button and enter the following:
Name: google.co.uk
Keyword: google.co.uk
URL:
Click OK then select the new entry and click Make Default
All done!
All searches will now go through google.co.uk and not the location aware version which uses the following URL:
1{google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s
Maybe turning location aware browsing will help - this is how.
0Since switching to the Beta Channel (currently on 5.0.375.38) the problem seems to have sorted itself, I am always getting .co.uk search results now.
1I don't know about Chrome, but this works for me in any browser: just append /ncr to the google URL (ncr=no country redirect): etc.
The /ncr will disappear when the page has been displayed, but the information is still available in a cookie (if you at least accept session cookies).
1I resolved this by adding gl=uk to the search string in the settings of my browser.
I'm using Edge. I added a new search engine, copied & pasted the normal google one, changed it to .co.uk and added the above to the search string. It gave me this:
This gave me .co.uk search with UK results. Without the gl=uk part I got swedish results despite it searching .co.uk, using a swedish proxy server.
