Google Search is going to be google.com globally

Google announced Tuesday that it’s going to redirect state codification top-level domain names (ccTLD) for Google Search to google.com implicit the coming months to “streamline people’s acquisition connected Search,” according to a blog post.

The alteration means that if, for example, you utilized google.ng (for Nigeria) oregon google.com.br (for Brazil), you’ll spot google.com successful your code barroom instead. As the alteration “gradually” rolls out, “you whitethorn beryllium prompted to re-enter immoderate of your Search preferences successful the process,” the institution says.

Nothing astir your acquisition should different change. “It’s important to enactment that portion this update volition alteration what radical spot successful their browser code bar, it won’t impact the mode Search works, nor volition it alteration however we grip obligations nether nationalist laws,” Google says.

Google notes that, since 2017, it has provided “the aforesaid acquisition with section results for everyone utilizing Search” if they were utilizing their country’s ccTLD oregon google.com. “Because of this improvement, country-level domains are nary longer necessary.”