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[Shackeng]

Is there another decent search engine than Google? No matter what I do it insists on offering US sites or items priced in $. I have tried the fixes suggested and using the - exclude option with no luck.

[Doctor Gollum]

You need to change your location to the UK

[Entwood]

Are you using google.co.uk .... ?? or google.com ...??  you will get VERY different results from these "different" search engines ..

[Doctor Gollum]

Are you using google.co.uk .... ?? or google.com ...??  you will get VERY different results from these "different" search engines ..

Interweb will automatically choose according to where it thinks you're based

[STEMO]

Try Duck Duck Go Chris.

[TheBoy]

Is there another decent search engine than Google? No matter what I do it insists on offering US sites or items priced in $. I have tried the fixes suggested and using the - exclude option with no luck.

If you're using one, turn off the VPN

[Entwood]

Are you using google.co.uk .... ?? or google.com ...??  you will get VERY different results from these "different" search engines ..

Interweb will automatically choose according to where it thinks you're based

If using a VPN like I do, then having a shortcut to google.co.uk gets around the "auto" choice, which is pretty crap anyway ... same applies to ebay .. ebay.co.uk gives very different results to ebay.com, again .. a shortcut ensures you use the one you want, not the one "they" think you should .....

[Doctor Gollum]

Of course, typing in the complete address rather than simply the name helps...

Personally, I have a favourites bar with all my commonly used sites, and OOF and Google uk as my two default tabs.

[Shackeng]

I use google.UK, my location is UK, tried this: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB&q= , and tried exclude minus sign. It still often returns US sites.
I asked here about using a VPN  but was advised against it by TB, I think.

[Shackeng]

https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=146093.msg1927078#msg1927078 Advised on VPN here.

[TheBoy]

OK, so then assuming the region is correct (defaults to "current region") in your google settings, assuming you are signed in to google (and it likely will default to current region if you are not), then its probably just likely that the US answers are more relevant to your search query.

If its for shopping (probably the main reason for wanting UK results), then the Shopping tab will help keep it to your region - ish.  But I find Google Shopping a bit naff TBH.

Also changing the search slightly, eg, adding uk into it, can help, but most SEO plugins that most of these annoying sites us will put common western countries in the metadata anyway.


All search engines work on similar principles, and the global nature of the internet means that its not easy for a search engine to determine what country a site is aimed at (as its very likely its hosted in another country anyway - for eg, the OOF Shop is hosted in the US)

[Shackeng]

I invariably put UK in the search term as well. Doesn’t seem to make much difference.

[TheBoy]

I invariably put UK in the search term as well. Doesn’t seem to make much difference.

try +uk at the end

[TheBoy]

even so, you'll still have to wade through non uk dross