Check variants between geographical Google results with Google Globe plugin for Firefox

July 15th, 2007 by Cormac Moylan · 5 Comments

It’s a long post title but it pretty much describes what Dave Davis’ Google Globe plugin does.

Dave introduces his plugin as being an

unobtrusive Firefox extension that allows you to see what the Google search results that you are viewing look like from different geographical locations

Google throws up different results based upon your IP address and based on whether you are Google’in from .de / .ie / .co.uk etc…. This plugin allows you to cross examine the results from varying geographical locations.

The major advantage of this plugin is the ability to

compare organic search results in different countries or if you want to see how your AdWords PPC campaigns appear in different regions.

There are screenshots and usage instructions available on Dave’s original post.

The plugin also works under Flock.

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5 responses so far ↓

1 University Update - Firefox - Check variants between geographical Google results with Google Globe plugin for Firefox // Jul 15, 2007 at 3:48 pm

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2 Dave Davis // Jul 15, 2007 at 4:56 pm

Thanks for the mention Cormac. Much appreciated.

I rarely use flock (Only at UI testing times) but this is some nice info. I’ll give it a try.

If you have any feedback or feature suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

Again, thanks for dedicating a post to it!
3 Cormac Moylan // Jul 15, 2007 at 11:08 pm

Will do Dave,
And thanks for sharing your plugin btw. Do you have any others in cold storage…:) ?
4 Mutiny Design // Jul 17, 2007 at 11:16 pm

Thanks for posting this. SOunds like a great plugin. I have thought about creating a FF plugin that allows you to check where you page ranks in Google for a given keyword. I have already made a crude GoogleChecker in PHP. Would just need to port it over to JS and wrap it in XUL. Hopefully will get the time to do this at some point this year
5 Jan from thrusites design // Aug 3, 2007 at 8:58 am

This result can be achieved adding/renaming some variables and their values within the URL of Google search query.

For example, &hl=something determines the language. &gl=something determines the geographic location (us = usa, uk = uk, etc.). Naturally, change google.com to google.co.uk or whatever and you’ll see different results as well:).

But everyone should know that majority still uses google.com and English language.

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