Oh, i'm so glad you mentioned that. It is one of the most annoying aspects of google.co.uk search, and I would have thought it should have been relatively easy. Google redirects a user to google.co.uk and has worked out from your IP that you're in the UK: If that's the case, serve UK sites, and not show sites that don't sell or market to the UK audience.

Many years ago there used to be a UK only button. I really don't know why that can't be brought back to bring control back the user.

This has been annoying me for some time now.

Engine, I find that even when I select UK from the search options I still get a lot of US results.

BeeDeeDubbleU yes, it's really weird. Google might say that it's serving the most relevant results, but, that's not how I see it.

I wonder if it's the same with, for example, google.fr. It's probably not as the language changes are easier to filter.

My thoughts are that Google is trying to cut the amount of data it is using to serve its results and this is just one way that it is showing up.

I have seen similar things with google.com.au

I've also seen this - US sites and .com.au in particular.

I have seen this a few times although I can't remember if it was G.co.uk or Bing but tried some searches for event tickets, white goods and computers. The first page was fine for the first two although I did get an Adwords ad in Arabic. The search for a type of computer got me 8 UK results and 2 US.on page 1

I have found that if the search is for products it is okay - but when you try to find out information about the products as a group the effect is more noticeable - for instance with the white goods and computer searches if you add 'power ratings' to the search you get more non-uk sites.