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Rodders the great

22nd February 2009 09:05

Can I fool google/ yahoo to think I'm in the US (does it matter?!)

Hi there,

I am in the middle of planning a trip to the US and need to look up a few specific things with the search engines. Problem is that even if I go to the .com sites instead of the .co.uk ones it stll seems like my results are UK biased (yahoo in particular).

I want them to be US biased!

Cheers for any help,

Rodders.

green granite

22nd February 2009 09:29

Or this one is even easier, based in Chicago

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call100

22nd February 2009 10:43

Personally I don't think it matters....You might want to look at this....
Find United States search engines with Search Engine Colossus

Selfloading

22nd February 2009 11:34

If you put site:com at the end of your query it should filter out all of the sites that don't end in .com, may help :cool:

Newforest2

22nd February 2009 13:00

On a thread tangent, my UK bank knows when I am logging in on a computer that is in Germany, anyway to circumvent this?

Rodders the great

23rd February 2009 18:40

Proxy guy is the one. I can even get onto my facebook at work! Me 1, the boss nill!

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