http://www.google.com/ncr (no country redirect). Gets saved in a cookie. No more local search.
That's in case you get redirected to google.at or the like.
Thanks for this. I used to visit Canada a lot and if I ever used my laptop up there I'd have to contend with all my default search settings being switched to google.ca for a while.
doesn't help with google not providing relevant search results anymore, and usually half the first page of results isn't even for the keywords I searched.
