I'm an Australian living in Thailand. I use Google Chrome as my primary web browser. Out-of-the-box, Chrome's combined address bar/search box will return results from google.co.th. That's fine but not optimal as my Thai literacy is fairly poor. Therefore I change my default search engine to google.com.au.
My question is: Should I instead be using google.com?
My two main concerns are that:
- I may be missing out on some information by using the Australian engine
- I may be getting slightly slower or faster search results (especially with Google Instant) depending on which engine I use
The types of searches I do are generally 'global' in nature (stuff about *nix, music, world events, etc.).
Best Answer
if you use any country engine of Google it will try to relate your search to that locality.it depend on search query if the results will be same or a little different.
So if your query is global in nature you should use Google.com. but if you want to relate your query to your locality and want that Google bias your result a little you can use .au.
Speed is not a problem with any prefix you add with google search engine.