see msn.co.uk ads from outside the uk

[ssling]

is there any way to easily see what ads are running on the msn.co.uk serps, w/o resorting to proxy servers? i saw an old thread on this but it was inconclusive...

thanks!

[flanker23]

when you do a search on msn live, if you look in your browser address window look for a section of the string "&mkt=en-us&FORM" change the "us" bit to "uk" and then refresh - you should see the uk results page. I live in the UK and do it the other way around in order to see US results.

[flanker23]

sorry, got the previous post wrong, you need to change it to "gb" not "uk".

[rj87uk]

sorry, got the previous post wrong, you need to change it to "gb" not "uk".

But what if MSN are checking the user IP as well as the url being passed?

[ssling]

hi flanker23, thanks for the suggestion. i tried that but no luck. i also finally tried something i should have thought of before: my visitors submit a form and i get the referring url, so i tried just pasting that into the address bar and refreshing:

[search.msn.co.uk...]

but even that didn't work! maybe rj87uk has a point and they are checking my non-UK ip address.

well, anyhow, that's all very interesting but i still can't see my darn ads.. :-( any other ideas out there?

thanks!

[robm]

Why do you not want to use a proxy?