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I live in Australia however most of the time I'm looking for foreign content/results, mostly Norwegian as well as French and German. No matter how hard I try I cannot get any Norwegian results in my searches, French and German is easier to find but is still a pain, I want to be able to get my search results as though someone from within the foreign country would get them.
I have tried Google.com, Google.com.au and Google.no (Norway Google) I have cleared cookies, cleared history, changed my location in Google search settings, tried typing my search terms in Norwegian and English. I have spent weeks at this and I have attempted every combination possible and tried every other trick I could find and absolutely nothing is working!!
to understand how bad it is if I look for "news Norway" or "Norwegian news" I will only ever find Australian news sites talking about Norway instead of native Norwegian news. And If I type in "DVD stores Norway" I will get only Australian (and some American) sites and even the most popular Norwegian websites will not show up for 10 pages if I'm lucky, most often not at all. This happens regardless of the location I set and which Google domain and language I use.
I have talked to a Norwegian friend that when he does the same thing as me (typing English search terms into Google.no) he gets vastly different results for his searches
I have learned that Google uses the geographical location of your IP address to personalise your results, I have a feeling that this is what is affecting my results. I am at my wits end, why must google make this such a nightmare?
I just want to disable this or have it so I can set it to any other country at will so that I get search results as if I was searching from within the foreign country. Can anybody help me with this?
TLDR
Cannot get native norwegian content (Also others to a lesser extent) when in Australia, tried everything nothing works, I want to get search results as if I was searching from within the foreign country
I have tried Google.com, Google.com.au and Google.no (Norway Google) I have cleared cookies, cleared history, changed my location in Google search settings, tried typing my search terms in Norwegian and English. I have spent weeks at this and I have attempted every combination possible and tried every other trick I could find and absolutely nothing is working!!
to understand how bad it is if I look for "news Norway" or "Norwegian news" I will only ever find Australian news sites talking about Norway instead of native Norwegian news. And If I type in "DVD stores Norway" I will get only Australian (and some American) sites and even the most popular Norwegian websites will not show up for 10 pages if I'm lucky, most often not at all. This happens regardless of the location I set and which Google domain and language I use.
I have talked to a Norwegian friend that when he does the same thing as me (typing English search terms into Google.no) he gets vastly different results for his searches
I have learned that Google uses the geographical location of your IP address to personalise your results, I have a feeling that this is what is affecting my results. I am at my wits end, why must google make this such a nightmare?





TLDR
Cannot get native norwegian content (Also others to a lesser extent) when in Australia, tried everything nothing works, I want to get search results as if I was searching from within the foreign country