Did you know that you can quickly add parameters to the end of your Google Search URL to see search results in a specific language and/or country? Yes, you can do this from the advanced search settings screen in Google Search but you can also append &hl=(languagecode) + &gl=(countrycode) URL parameters, if you want to save some clicks.
John Mueller from Google says he often does it this way. He posted on LinkedIn:
I use &hl=(languagecode) + &gl=(countrycode) URL parameters, but you can also use the advanced search settings (in “tools” / “suchfilter”). Using URL parameters is a bit weird, but you know it fits me.
Here are examples of this:
Italy in Italian:
Hebrew in Israel:
This obviously comes in handy when looking at results and how they perform in specific regions and languages.
Oh, and I bet there are tons of browser extensions that do this plus probably spoof your location in a specific region – if you want to get even fancier.
Forum discussion at LinkedIn.
