Google notes that, since 2017, it has provided “the same experience with local results for everyone using Search” if they were using their country’s ccTLD or google.com.

In the early days, Google used ccTLD to provide locally relevant search results. As of 2017, Google started providing local results regardless of whether you used a country’s ccTLD or google.com.

Google has announced that it's retiring separate country code top-level domain names for search, like google.co.uk or google.com.br, and unifying them under Google.com.. Previously, Google used to ...

Throughout the trial, Google has sought to paint search as a rapidly changing market where its lead is no longer guaranteed. Google's legal team pointed to the meteoric rise of ChatGPT, which has ...