Can I exclude Irish based sites from a Google search?

Brendan Burgess

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I am trying to see how other countries approach unsustainable mortgages.

When I do a Google search, the results are almost all from Irish websites.

Is there a way of excluding Irish sites?

I can exclude Irish domains by

unsustainable mortgages -site:.ie

But that is not helpful as most Irish sites are .com and keep coming up anyway.

Google Ireland comes up when I click on Google.

Can I make Google USA come up for example?
 
Can I make Google USA come up for example?
Yes.

Brendan, on the bottom right corner of the google.ie page there is a link to google.com. This will take you to the US version, whereas manually going to google.com always defaults back to Ireland.
 
Make sure you're not signed into Google, and location services are not enabled, as they will be used to favour local results.

Add -ireland to the search query to exclude results that mention Ireland, and +england or +uk to make that more important in the filtering/ ordering of results.
 
OK, I have found out how to get google.com

Browse privately - the mask icon on Firefox

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Even so, it will default to Google.ie

But in the bottom right hands side, you can click on

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Brendan
 
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