[Solved] How to search Google USA from outside the USA

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Hi fellow Warriors I just found out the coolest little secrets.

I have been wanting to search for my website, and adwords Ads and see how they perform in the USA, but it always defaults to my countries Google. I am trying to see my ad Placement, and competition in the biggest countries as far as search volume USA and UK. I finally found out how to do it.

HERE IS HOW : in your browser type the google address you want and at the end just type /ncr I can't believe it's that simple.

eg. www.google.com/ncr (for the USA)
www.google.co.uk/ncr (for the UK)

It works for any country so if you are trying different languages or countries.

If this is very simple to some of you I apologize I have been looking for this for a few days so I am ecstatic. Yippee
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  • NCR = No Country Restriction ?

    Never seen this before. Thanks for sharing.
  • Neat trick. I also did a search and looked for "&hl=en" in the address bar. I then added "&gl=us" to the left of it and researched. That was how I got to see local adwords results.
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  • @Cathy Shelver: Nice find.

    I've used this before myself.


    In my case, I prefer to search via "google.com" than my local country by default.
    It would be too much work to use that "hack" every time.

    So, I changed my Browser's Search Engine settings.


    Originally, it was something like this:

    So I made my own custom Search Options like this:
    Now I search from Google.com by Default always, and not my Local Google Search.
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    • Profile picture of the author websitedesigner
      Thanks for the tip here, very useful! Now I can see how badly my site ranks in the states ha.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Singletary
    Any idea why it would not work? Doesn't for me.
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    • Don't know, but an alternative is to use a proxy website like this one. Under 'Advanced Options', select a server in the US. Then do a search for "google.com".
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  • Profile picture of the author CodeBotics
    That's pretty neat, but I thought you could just go to Google and click on "Go to Google.com".

    I just moved my mouse over that link, and the URL is Google.com/ncr - looks like it's the same thing!
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  • Got it working. Thanks. It apparently doesn't work if you are logged into a Google account such as Gmail. It only works, for me, on the first search. Then I have to start from scratch with the ncr thing again.
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    • great tip. thanks, its definetly the fastest , there used to be a plugin also
      but this is way easier
  • I use google global add on for firefox.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...google-global/
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  • Neat tip, thanks for sharing. I have not seen this before.

    I usually search via google rather than my local country.

    Thanks for sharing this tip.
  • One More trick is to add

    at the end of the url after searching the query.
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  • Its a nice trick.Thanks buddy.
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    [Solved] How to search Google USA from outside the USA

    Hi fellow Warriors I just found out the coolest little secrets. I have been wanting to search for my website, and adwords Ads and see how they perform in the USA, but it always defaults to my countries Google. I am trying to see my ad Placement, and competition in the biggest countries as far as search volume USA and UK. I finally found out how to do it.