Simple trick to see US based Google headquarter search results without any proxy

This article will be helpful if you want to see Google search results without location or any other user preferences. This serp is visible for guys in Mountain View, CA, USA from Google headquarter – https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B025’19.2%22N+122%C2%B005’06.0%22W/@37.422,-122.085,17z.

You need to find out the IP of Google headquarter server and then visit the Google by this IP.

  • Run in Unix-like operating systems terminal:
    host -t a google.com
    

    In 05.28.2015 it says 216.58.209.165
    It’s a “DNS A record” which is most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host. So it tells us that google.com domain is linked to 216.58.209.165 IP

  • Just visit http://216.58.209.165

Additional plus is that you don’t need to log out from your Google account if you are using their services. Authentication doesn’t work for visiting Google by IP.

One more interesting thing is that the connection is not SSL. But if you visit http://google.com it will redirect you to https://google.com with SSL.

Update: it seems that guys form Google have read my article and fixed this bug shortly, so it doesn’t work any more.