Google.com still blocked from the UK
by Brian Turner
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Google.com still remains inaccessible to ordinary UK internet users, making it almost a week since the issue was first spotted.
UK internet users are still unable to access Google.com, because of the way the internet giant geotargets and redirects users.
Google already applies geotargeting to automatically force direct requests for Google.com from UK IP’s to Google.co.uk.
While there is a link to Google.com on the bottom right of the Google.co.uk homepage, it leads to a redirect error.
The result is that Google.com remains entirely inaccessible from the UK.
While it would be fun to becry this as a censorship issue, it’s obviously little more than a technical issue.
However, it’s an annoying one for those internet users who appreciate that on the World Wide Web and a globally connected world, Google users in the UK cannot use Google Search to find a less UK-centric view of Google Search.
The really surprising thing is that Google have allowed this technical issue to continue for so long.
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It seems that censorship has come in through the back door. google.com was always my first stopping point, far more than the UK version ever was, and I miss it. Also google.co.uk does not seem to have the breadth and depth you would expect from the world’s ‘premier’ search engine. google have a lot of supporters who search them by default before all others, so why have this weird redirect set for their users in the UK?
Use a proxy if you need to access Google.com, there’s a list of them with countries on Proxy.org