Hi guys,

I have a problem. I used to think that I could simply type in google.com and switch to English language and then see the same rankings somebody from the US would see (yeah, I know .com doesnt mean USA lol).

However, today I noticed I had 3 UK sites at #4-6 that a friend of mine who lives in the US couldnt even see in his top 20.

I think it would make sense for Google to favor UK sites for somebody whos doing a search in English in Germany for e-commerce stuff. They'll have to pay less shipping costs and not wait as long as if they ordered from the US (or OZ/NZ/.. for that matter). Thus a better search experience. Has anyone noticed this, before?

Anyway, Im wondering how to deal with this problem. Can I use a proxy server from the US to see the US Serps? That has been suggested to me, but I dont really know anything about proxy servers never having used one...Is this even legal? I assume Id go to a certain site then 'log in' and every website Ill go to will believe Im from the location that the proxy server is based in, right? Thus if I was using a US proxy server, Id get the US results, because google would have no way to know that Im in Germany not in the US?

Maybe I could just add a query string(exp?) to google.com to see the US SERPs?

thanks guys!