Question for Canadian Warriors

14 years ago

If they are shopping for shipped products or searching locally yes.

Otherwise it's ignored. Are you on a .ca domain or does your site say Canada on the main page? If so that's probably why you are being put at the kids table

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bravo75

14 years ago

No, it is a .com and there is no mention of Canada.

Originally Posted by Brad Gosse

If they are shopping for shipped products or searching locally yes.

Otherwise it's ignored. Are you on a .ca domain or does your site say Canada on the main page? If so that's probably why you are being put at the kids table

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sylviad

14 years ago

Nope. Not unless I'm specifically looking for a Canadian - business, person, location. In fact, even then I don't. Somehow, Google sends me Canadian data when I don't ask for it.

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bravo75

14 years ago

Hey Sylvia, I have the same problem. Why does Google keep giving me Canadian data when I don't ask for it, bugs the hell out of me.

Originally Posted by sylviad

Nope. Not unless I'm specifically looking for a Canadian - business, person, location. In fact, even then I don't. Somehow, Google sends me Canadian data when I don't ask for it.

Sylvia

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theverysmartguy

14 years ago

The only time this ever happens to me is when I am using google.ca. When I am using google.com I don't seem to have that problem, UNLESS i mentioned a Canadian city or province.

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bravo75

14 years ago

When I type Google.com into my browser, it automatically switches to Google.ca

Originally Posted by theverysmartguy

The only time this ever happens to me is when I am using google.ca. When I am using google.com I don't seem to have that problem, UNLESS i mentioned a Canadian city or province.

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theverysmartguy 14 years ago

Originally Posted by bravo75

When I type Google.com into my browser, it automatically switches to Google.ca

When you are on the google.ca page.

Look just below the search box, and it will look something like this

Advertising Programs Business Solutions About Google Go to Google.com

Just click on the go to google.com and you're golden.

You can also then set that to your homepage if you like. Usually once you are there, it will usually automatically just go back there when you go back to google.

If it doesnt, then just press that link that will take you back to google.com

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Originally Posted by bravo75

Why does Google keep giving me Canadian data when I don't ask for it, bugs the hell out of me.

Because it is reading your IP address and it "thinks" being in Canada you are interested in Canadian data.

It does the same wherever you travel: if it has specific site for that country... when going to G. "home" it takes you to google.de or google.ch etc.

When a company grows big enough it reaches the level of stupidity where it tries to guess (figure out) what the user wants... under the disguise of being "helpful".
Think MS, think G... - don't you love them?

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bravo75

14 years ago

Bunch of tossbags. I am an internet marketer and therefore, I couldn't give a rats arse about Canadian data. How am I going to see if my site is on the first page of Google in the U.S? This is my primary target audience.

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Because it is reading your IP address and it "thinks" being in Canada you are interested in Canadian data.

It does the same wherever you travel: if it has specific site for that country... when going to G. "home" it takes you to google.de or google.ch etc.

When a company grows big enough it reaches the level of stupidity where it tries to guess (figure out) what the user wants... under the disguise of being "helpful".
Think MS, think G... - don't you love them?

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Lawrh

14 years ago

Originally Posted by healymedia

And besides, it only takes one click to get to Google.com if that's where you really want to be.

You may be at google.com but unless you use the /ncr switch your results are still geo located. Clicking to g.com does nothing to reduce the number of localized results.

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theverysmartguy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Lawrh

You may be at google.com but unless you use the /ncr switch your results are still geo located. Clicking to g.com does nothing to reduce the number of localized results.

Sorry I just did a test on google.ca and google.com And it showed a DRASTIC change in search results.

EDIT: for example I did a search for restaurants in google.ca and it gave me options for restaurants in toronto, or vancouver, etc. When I switched to google.com none of that came up.

so yes, there is a HUGE difference in searching in .ca VS .com for us Canadians

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Lawrh 14 years ago

Originally Posted by theverysmartguy

Sorry I just did a test on google.ca and google.com And it showed a DRASTIC change in search results.

Doesn't work for Sylvia and me. Canadian results always dominate without the /ncr switch. I don't really care since I changed to Scroogle.
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- theverysmartguy 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Lawrh
  
  Doesn't work for Sylvia and me. Canadian results always dominate without the /ncr switch. I don't really care since I changed to Scroogle.
  
  Strange, because I just did another test, and searched in scroogle, and it gave me the same results as it gave me in google.com
  
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bravo75

14 years ago

Did you try >>Tools>>Delete Recent History>>Select All and retry your search. This too can yield a drastic change in results.

Originally Posted by sylviad

Nope. Not unless I'm specifically looking for a Canadian - business, person, location. In fact, even then I don't. Somehow, Google sends me Canadian data when I don't ask for it.

Sylvia

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theverysmartguy 14 years ago

Originally Posted by bravo75

Did you try >>Tools>>Delete Recent History>>Select All and retry your search. This too can yield a drastic change in results.

Yes this is true, because your browser, and google can tend to be lazy, and bring up cache results in your history.

This has happened to be on numerous occasions.

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- Elle Holder 14 years ago
  
  Here's what I do. I use this FF plugin most of the time, but for those rare occasions when I want strictly Canadian data, I use google.ca and "pages from Canada."
  
  Unfortunately, neither way is foolproof. Like Istvan said, since you're logging into Google.com from a Canadian IP, you'll still get some Canadian data in your find. And when you're using Google.ca + Pages from Canadad because you want to shop here, you'll still get a ton of stuff of results from all over the world. And that drives me completely bonkers!
  
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mattalways

14 years ago

I don't hit it really. If I'm looking to buy something, I might hit it to see if there is anything in Canada. I don't do it everytime.

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Ishan Soni

14 years ago

I never use that option and don't think many others do either. When I want to search for stuff locally I use sites like kijiji.

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bravo75 14 years ago

Hi Ishan, I am in Edmonton too. Lovely day isn't it?

Originally Posted by Ishan Soni

I never use that option and don't think many others do either. When I want to search for stuff locally I use sites like kijiji.

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- theverysmartguy 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bravo75
  
  Hi Ishan, I am in Edmonton too. Lovely day isn't it?
  
  Lovely day to be inside you mean...lol I think the sun has abandoned us.
  
  Oh wellz, I prefer this weather to the blazing 36C that we will get later in june and july.
  
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Lawrh

14 years ago

Use google.com/ncr that tells G not to geo locate.

You can also use Scroogle Scraper

They are a proxy for Google results. No geo location or ads.

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sylviad 14 years ago

Originally Posted by bravo75

Hey Sylvia, I have the same problem. Why does Google keep giving me Canadian data when I don't ask for it, bugs the hell out of me.

Originally Posted by bravo75

When I type Google.com into my browser, it automatically switches to Google.ca

A little while ago, I figured out how to set this thing so Google wouldn't do that. Can't tell you where that was now. But even so, just today I was running a few searches and it gave me Canadian data. I immediately wondered why it skipped to .com again. It hadn't done that since I figured out that... whatever it was. But it hadn't skipped. It was still on .com yet it gave me Canadian data and Canadian Google ads, which has happened several times now recently.

I agree, it's a pain in the butt. We want to play with the Big Boys, not local chaps. Now, I'm never sure just WHAT data I'm getting, unless it's obvious. Page Rank is one. My sites are lower on .ca than on .com, but now I just don't know what I'm seeing.

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