...of the way the internet giant geotargets and redirects users.

Google already applies geotargeting to automatically force direct requests for Google.com from UK IPs to Google.co.uk.

While there is a link to Google.com on the bottom right of the Google.co.uk homepage, it leads to a redirect error.

The result is that Google.com remains entirely inaccessible from the UK.

While it would be fun to becry this as a censorship issue, its obviously little more than a technical issue.

However, its an annoying one for those internet users who appreciate that on the World Wide Web and a globally connected world, Google users in the UK cannot use Google Search to find a less UK-centric view of Google Search.

The really surprising thing is that Google have allowed this technical issue to continue for so long.

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