how do i get to google.com?

benjo said:
Just search the web from google.co.uk? Same results tbh
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no, they are not the same at all.

google.com favours usa results and google.co.uk favours uk results. for instance, one of my own (.co.uk) websites is 9th in the google listing for .co.uk but only 11th for .com. which is a huge differerence for webmasters (it's the difference between being on the first page of listings or not).

i've been working on my SEO in the hope of getting on to page 1 of google.com, but i can't check it, because every time i go to google.com i get redirected to google.co.uk.
 
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Augmented said:
You could just simply click the link in the footer, on any localised Google, that says "Go to Google.com" ;).
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and that link would be where? :confused:
 
it's because you have the "Personalised Home" page selected, if you goto "Classic Home" (link in the top right), the footer link is there!!
 
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seek said:
no, they are not the same at all.

google.com favours usa results and google.co.uk favours uk results. for instance, one of my own (.co.uk) websites is 9th in the google listing for .co.uk but only 11th for .com. which is a huge differerence for webmasters (it's the difference between being on the first page of listings or not).
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Oh, my bad :)
 
Haha, Augmented strikes again. :)

I have the personalised Google home page and the link appears for me after i have 'searched' for something. The search window can be empty when i search but the link will still appear..
 
Sorry for the minor hijack, but I didn't think it was worth a thread of it's own.

Has anyone found that the results for images have changed?

A search shows images, but I have to mouse over to see info such as the size of the image and the site its from etc. Makes it take a lot longer when trying to find an image wider than XYZ pixels :(

Anything I can do to change it back or will I have to use a custom style sheet or something?
 
Jotun said:
Sorry for the minor hijack, but I didn't think it was worth a thread of it's own.

Has anyone found that the results for images have changed?

A search shows images, but I have to mouse over to see info such as the size of the image and the site its from etc. Makes it take a lot longer when trying to find an image wider than XYZ pixels :(

Anything I can do to change it back or will I have to use a custom style sheet or something?
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interesting... i see they are copying microsofts 'live' image search.

i much prefer the old way.
 
Hmmm... I don't like that change to Google Images either, and the method they implement it with, code-wise, is really pretty nasty (no change there for Google!).

You could disable javascript for images.google.* using something like the noscript extension for Firefox - that'll fix it.

I've only briefly looked, but the following CSS will somewhat fix the issue - far, far from perfect, but it's a start. Hopefully someone will come up with a decent userstyle/userscript solution. Use the Stylish extension or put in your usercontent.css:
Code: 
@-moz-document domain("images.google.co.uk") {
  div[id^="div_hidden"] { 
    visibility: visible !important;
    overflow: visible !important;
    width: inherit !important;
    background-color: #fff !important;
    border: none !important;
    padding: 5px !important;
  }
  
  div[id="navbar"][class="n"], 
  td[id^="tDataImage"] { 
    padding-top: 20px !important;
  }
}
 
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