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I'm doing some research into a business that's expanded into Nigeria. And I'm looking for a way to see what a Nigerian would see when googling from within the country e.g. first page links.
 
Afaik google.com doesn't tailor results to suit geolocations.
The only way for me to get ZA specific results is to search on google.co.za, and to get better results actually select 'South Africa' under the 'Tools' menu.

Nigeria link: https://www.google.com.ng/
 
saor said:
Afaik google.com doesn't tailor results to suit geolocations.
The only way for me to get ZA specific results is to search on google.co.za, and to get better results actually select 'South Africa' under the 'Tools' menu.

Nigeria link: https://www.google.com.ng/
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I still get SA adword links when using the google site. I was looking for a proxy service, but can't seem to find one that will allow me to view from Nigeria.
 
What about paying for a VPN that runs through Nigeria? About as accurate as you can get then?
 
I suppose you could check to see if Tor has a relay node in Nigeria and if it does, set that address as your exit node. Otherwise the private VPN is the only option.
 
nadimm said:
NCR doesn't do it. I guess I will have to go the VPN route. Thanks
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Choose CentOS 7 and follow this guide https://www.vultr.com/docs/installing-openvpn-on-centos-7.

Once done, go to <ip>:943 and your VPS will let you download the client. Once the client is downloaded, install it, type in the username and password you created when setting it up and bingo. You should now be breaking out in Nigeria and for all intents and purposes web servers will respond to you as if you're actually there.

I have a bunch of tunnels breaking out all over the world using that guide.
 
XennoX said:
I suppose you could check to see if Tor has a relay node in Nigeria and if it does, set that address as your exit node. Otherwise the private VPN is the only option.
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Checked Tor. No node. Thanks

YingYang said:
Choose CentOS 7 and follow this guide https://www.vultr.com/docs/installing-openvpn-on-centos-7.

Once done, go to <ip>:943 and your VPS will let you download the client. Once the client is downloaded, install it, type in the username and password you created when setting it up and bingo. You should now be breaking out in Nigeria and for all intents and purposes web servers will respond to you as if you're actually there.

I have a bunch of tunnels breaking out all over the world using that guide.
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Cool, will give it a shot.

xrapidx said:
Works for me. Maybe a browser issue?
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May be the internet at work. Will try at home.
 
saor said:
Afaik google.com doesn't tailor results to suit geolocations.
The only way for me to get ZA specific results is to search on google.co.za, and to get better results actually select 'South Africa' under the 'Tools' menu.

Nigeria link: https://www.google.com.ng/
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It does.

It absolutely 100% tailor it based in geolocation
 
Thor187 said:
It does.

It absolutely 100% tailor it based in geolocation
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This is correct. Certain local results do get priority. You don't have to go to Tools > Country: South Africa. The difference is basically this: Without selecting country: Let's say there is a thing with a similar name overseas like there is in SA, if you do the search in SA the SA results/definition will be above the other results. Not always but mostly. While on the other hand Country: South Africa shows .co.za domain suffix results and locally hosted TLD's. Although this is also not always the case. As I have seen international results mixed in, whether a CDN would affect this I don't know.
 
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