A month in the past, Google stated it could quickly redirect its ccTLD, nation particular domains, for Google Search to its Google.com area. So Google.de, for example, could be redirected to Google.com. Effectively, that course of appears to have kicked off on Friday, Could sixteenth for some customers.
A month in the past, Google wrote, “country-level domains are now not mandatory. So we’ll start redirecting site visitors from these ccTLDs to google.com to streamline individuals’s expertise on Search.”
Alexander Außermayr noticed this on Friday and wrote on LinkedIn, “OMG, Googles Area-Migration hat begonnen.” He shared this screenshot of Google.at being redirected to Google.com:
Additionally Google.de:
I personally am not in a position to replicate, however I’m based mostly in New York – but in addition, that is presupposed to roll out steadily, so some may even see it and a few might not for a while.
Alexander did inform me he and his colleagues had been being redirected for a time period after which the redirect went away. So possibly it was being examined for a short time? Then it began working once more a number of hours later.
Both manner, some are actually beginning to be redirected from Google’s nation particular ccTLDs to the .com model.
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
