Google introduced Tuesday that it’s going to redirect nation code top-level domains (ccTLD) for Google Search to google.com over the approaching months to “streamline folks’s expertise on Search,” based on a weblog put up.
The change implies that if, for instance, you used google.ng (for Nigeria) or google.com.br (for Brazil), you’ll see google.com in your tackle bar as a substitute. Because the change “regularly” rolls out, “it’s possible you’ll be prompted to re-enter a few of your Search preferences within the course of,” the corporate says.
Nothing about your expertise ought to in any other case change. “It’s necessary to notice that whereas this replace will change what folks see of their browser tackle bar, it gained’t have an effect on the way in which Search works, nor will it change how we deal with obligations below nationwide legal guidelines,” Google says.
Google notes that, since 2017, it has offered “the identical expertise with native outcomes for everybody utilizing Search” in the event that they had been utilizing their nation’s ccTLD or google.com. “Due to this enchancment, country-level domains are not needed.”
