It’s official, in the coming months, Google.fr will disappear and fully give way to Google.com. A transition without consequences on the results of the search engine.
The days of the Google.fr address are counted. Please note, it is not the search engine or its availability in French that will disappear. We are just talking about the URL here.
Google has an effect announced that it no longer needed to use localized domain names like .ng for Nigeria or .br for Brazil. And therefore as .fr for France.
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-Google has always used national national areas (CCTLD) to refine the results of its research for a locally adapted user experience.
Or, « In 2017, we started to provide the same experience with local results for all those who use Search, whether they use Google.com or the CCTLD of their country“Says Google.
Due to this improvement, country level areas are no longer necessary. We will therefore start to redirect the traffic from these CCTLD to Google.com in order to simplify the experience of Internet users in terms of research. This change will be implemented gradually in the coming months and you may be invited to grasp some of your research preferences again.
In other words, Google.fr will simply redirect you to Google.com and that should not change your use of the most famous search engine on the web.
Google insists that this new address that will appear in the bar of your web browser “will not affect the functioning of research and will not change the way in which we manage the obligations arising from national laws ».
