rhonda427 - 9:29 pm on Dec 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

Thanks a lot. I believe it's a bit more triggy than this, as it seems to me as if Google - nomatter what you write after the & - will present search results based on the country where your IP is located.

This certainly is true for "Global Google Firefox Extension" and also putting for example "&gl=de" at the end of the url.

By using [google.com...] and specifying language to be German and domain to be .de, the result was more sensible, but I don't believe this would be what a "native" German would see. We have suddenly seen a large increase in hits from Germany on a certain keyword, and searching on this particular keyword didn't show our site on the first 25 pages. I suspect we are actually on page 1 or 2.

Probably the only way to do it would be to perform the search on a German based client somehow, but I just don't know how this could be achieved.