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I'm trying to reach google.com, but, being based in Spain right now, this URL redirects me to google.es. I assume the same happens with all other country specific TLDs. How can I access google.com? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.46.155.110 ( talk) 21:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Google certainly has regard to the geolocation of the questioner. There's usually a link to an anniversary - today it's "Mother's Day 2018". Out of curiosity, what link are they showing in other countries?
86.155.146.232 ( talk) 11:19, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Having called up the Google searchbox using a number of country codes I can confirm they all return the same display. 86.155.146.232 ( talk) 11:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm fairly sure that Google uses local times for local Google doodles. (The local doodles you see will depend on what region your set to, this is normally the current region you're visiting from based on your IP.) I suspect for most semi or completely international ones use local time of whatever region your set to although it may get complicated with certain ones like olympics ones. M.
I don't get the relevance of the rest of what you said to my point and actually I'm not even sure what you're asking me I'm sure of.
I'd note though that I'm fairly certain I could easily have gotten a Mother's Day 2018 by using a UK proxy. Or by using Republic of Ireland one or visiting it. (It looks like Google may have missed Nigeria, but I'm not totally sure.) I strongly suspect I could have also gotten it by changing by Google region setting to United Kingdom or Ireland which BTW also changes search results to be influences by the region. (Like visiting google.co.uk etc used to do.)
Amongst other things, I see a doodle for Mauritius 50th independence day if I change my region to Mauritius. And I can see a doodle for Sir William Henry Perkin if I change my region to UK or US or Singapore but don't see it for Malaysia or Australia or NZ. The one for Singapore disappeared around midnight Singapore time. (To be clear, I did check Malaysia the same time as Singapore i.e. before midnight actually before Singapore. Also I don't remember it ever showing for NZ, but maybe I just didn't notice.)
In case it's still not clear, what I am saying is the content Google serves you is largely or completely independent from whichever of their many many servers happens to serve you (and largely of its location although very legal reasons probably not completely) and this is largely independent from whichever domain you happen to visit.
There are probably ways to use the google.com domain from Spain, but all this is likely to mean is the domain you see in URLs is google.com. If this is all you want, you've achieved your goal. However if you are trying to achieve something else you should be clear on what you're trying to achieve since what you're doing may be the wrong way to go about it.
This applies for stuff beyond Google too. Do not assume accessing a .nz, .uk or .au or whatever domain for something automatically means you will receive the same content that people in the NZ, UK or Australia or whatever receive, or even that it will be any different from the .es one. Do not assume that the servers will be the same as people in the NZ, UK or Australia normally access, they could still be the same servers that you normally use in Spain (or whatever). The way the modern internet works means its not uncommon these things are all disconnected from each other.
Nil Einne ( talk) 16:21, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
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I'm trying to reach google.com, but, being based in Spain right now, this URL redirects me to google.es. I assume the same happens with all other country specific TLDs. How can I access google.com? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.46.155.110 ( talk) 21:57, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
Google certainly has regard to the geolocation of the questioner. There's usually a link to an anniversary - today it's "Mother's Day 2018". Out of curiosity, what link are they showing in other countries?
86.155.146.232 ( talk) 11:19, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Having called up the Google searchbox using a number of country codes I can confirm they all return the same display. 86.155.146.232 ( talk) 11:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
I'm fairly sure that Google uses local times for local Google doodles. (The local doodles you see will depend on what region your set to, this is normally the current region you're visiting from based on your IP.) I suspect for most semi or completely international ones use local time of whatever region your set to although it may get complicated with certain ones like olympics ones. M.
I don't get the relevance of the rest of what you said to my point and actually I'm not even sure what you're asking me I'm sure of.
I'd note though that I'm fairly certain I could easily have gotten a Mother's Day 2018 by using a UK proxy. Or by using Republic of Ireland one or visiting it. (It looks like Google may have missed Nigeria, but I'm not totally sure.) I strongly suspect I could have also gotten it by changing by Google region setting to United Kingdom or Ireland which BTW also changes search results to be influences by the region. (Like visiting google.co.uk etc used to do.)
Amongst other things, I see a doodle for Mauritius 50th independence day if I change my region to Mauritius. And I can see a doodle for Sir William Henry Perkin if I change my region to UK or US or Singapore but don't see it for Malaysia or Australia or NZ. The one for Singapore disappeared around midnight Singapore time. (To be clear, I did check Malaysia the same time as Singapore i.e. before midnight actually before Singapore. Also I don't remember it ever showing for NZ, but maybe I just didn't notice.)
In case it's still not clear, what I am saying is the content Google serves you is largely or completely independent from whichever of their many many servers happens to serve you (and largely of its location although very legal reasons probably not completely) and this is largely independent from whichever domain you happen to visit.
There are probably ways to use the google.com domain from Spain, but all this is likely to mean is the domain you see in URLs is google.com. If this is all you want, you've achieved your goal. However if you are trying to achieve something else you should be clear on what you're trying to achieve since what you're doing may be the wrong way to go about it.
This applies for stuff beyond Google too. Do not assume accessing a .nz, .uk or .au or whatever domain for something automatically means you will receive the same content that people in the NZ, UK or Australia or whatever receive, or even that it will be any different from the .es one. Do not assume that the servers will be the same as people in the NZ, UK or Australia normally access, they could still be the same servers that you normally use in Spain (or whatever). The way the modern internet works means its not uncommon these things are all disconnected from each other.
Nil Einne ( talk) 16:21, 12 March 2018 (UTC)