Are you visiting a European country? Then obviously you'll need the local version of Google, even if you typed "google.com" into your browser's address bar, and even if you don't speak the local language. Google knows better than you. Don't argue!

Have Website developers not heard of air travel?

Google isn't alone. Yahoo does the same thing, as do many Websites. Some offer links to the .com site but the worst offenders are the sites that don't, and keep bouncing you back to the local version.

One way around this redirection is to browse , but these tend to be very slow.

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