The top results are identical to your normal view
Check Is the profile signed in, did you accept the location prompt, is the proxy really on?
Fix Use a signed-out profile, block the location request and re-run the curl check to confirm the exit.
Check Google Results From Another Country or City
Google places a search by location. Here are three ways to see another country or city, and the checks that keep the comparison honest.
Three ways to see results from another place
| Item | What you get | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Search Console, Countries view | Clicks, impressions and average position for your own site, grouped by country | Not a view of the results page; no competitors; no city |
| Google Ads, Ad preview and diagnosis | How an ad appears in live results, without adding impressions | Ads only, and it may not reflect all campaign activity |
| Manual check through a country or city exit | The organic results and local pack a searcher in that place sees | Done by hand and in small numbers; the city estimate can differ from the one you chose |
Read on 15 November 2026 from the Search Console and Google Ads help pages and from Google's page on how it uses location.
What Google uses to place a search
Google's help lists four sources for the location of a search: the device location, a saved home or work address, previous activity such as places you searched before, and the IP address, which is roughly based on geography. Precise location is used only if you grant location permission to google.com or to Google apps, and the browser and the website each have their own permission.
A proxy supplies the IP address and nothing else. If you search while signed in to your usual account, or you accept the location prompt, the other signals still point to where you really are and the comparison tells you little. For a fair check, use a separate, signed-out browser profile and decline the location request.
Check one keyword from another place
Step 1: Decide country or city
A country check is enough for most national queries. City matters for local packs and phrases such as near me. Rotating residential proxies target country and major cities, with no city level in Russia or Singapore, and small towns can fall back to the country.
Step 2: Get an exit in that place and verify it
Generate the exit for the country or city, then run the curl check below. It prints the exit IP with its country and city. Treat the city as the database's estimate.
Expected result The country you chose; the city may differ.
Step 3: Open a clean browser profile
Create a new profile that is not signed in to Google, with no saved places. In its proxy settings enter the exit: HTTP on port 2222. Chrome and Edge cannot log in to SOCKS5, so use an HTTP asset in a browser.
Step 4: Search and decline the location prompt
Open Google and type your keyword. If the browser asks to share your location, choose to block it, so Google falls back to the IP address.
Step 5: Record and compare
Save a screenshot and the date, then search the same keyword from your normal connection. Differences in the top results and the local pack are what you are looking for.
Step 6: Keep it manual and small
A few checks by hand are fine. For daily tracking over many keywords, read Search Console and plan traffic and request rate first; Google's terms list automated access that ignores a service's machine-readable instructions as misuse.
Verify the exit before you search
# 1) Check the exit IP, country and city before you search
curl -x http://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:2222 https://ipinfo.io/json
# 2) Same check for a SOCKS5 IP
curl -x socks5h://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:3333 https://ipinfo.io/jsonExample only: replace the placeholders with the values from My assets and use the line that matches the protocol of that IP.
When the results look the same as at home
The city in the local pack is not the one you chose
Check Does ipinfo.io show the same city for the exit?
Fix City is an estimate and some exits resolve at country level. Generate another exit for that city on the Premium line and check again.
Google shows a check page or asks you to verify
Check Are you sending many searches in a row?
Fix Complete the check as asked, slow down to a few manual searches and wait before you continue.
Stop when If the page keeps appearing with a handful of searches, stop and send Support the order number so the exit can be checked.
Google results by location: FAQ
Does a proxy change Google results?
It changes the IP address Google sees, which is one of the signals for location. Device location, saved places and past activity also count, so use a signed-out profile.
Can I see a ranking in Search Console by country?
Yes: the performance report can group data by country. It shows your own site's average position, not the results page.
How do I preview an ad in another place?
Use the Ads preview and diagnosis tool in your account: it shows live results without adding impressions.
Can I check a city as well as a country?
Yes, for major cities on the Premium line, where state and city are chosen when you generate the connection. Check the exit with ipinfo.io because the city is an estimate.
Prices and limits
Rotating residential traffic covers 195+ countries. The Budget line costs US$1.50 per GB and picks a country only; the Premium line costs US$5 per GB and also lets you choose state and city when you generate the connection. Purchased traffic has no expiry, and there is no free trial: the smallest purchase is 1 GB.
Read next
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Check search results by country or city: what sets the location, how precise a proxy can be, and the GB cost at US$1.50 per GB.
City-level proxy targeting
What country, state and city targeting really mean for residential proxies, why a lookup can show another city, and how to verify an exit before you rely on it.
Check prices and ads from another country
A repeatable method to see the prices, currency, shipping and ads a visitor in another country sees: clean session, confirmed exit, recorded result.
Rotating residential proxies
Real household IPs in 195+ countries; the Premium line adds state and major-city targeting. A new IP on every new connection, or keep sticky sessions. From US$1.50/GB, US$1.35/GB at 100 GB. HTTP and SOCKS5.
View options and pricing
Record regional search results
Design regional search observations and interpret them separately from Search Console's aggregated position and query reports.
View options and pricingReference links
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- Google Search Help: how Google uses location in Search
Official documentation · Confirmed on:
Read on 15 November 2026: Google estimates location from device location, home or work address, previous activity and IP address ("IP addresses are roughly based on geography"); precise location is used only if you grant location permission to google.com or Google apps, and the browser and the website each have their own permission.
- Search Console Help: Performance report
Official documentation · Confirmed on:
Read on 15 November 2026: the report can group data by Countries; average position is the position of the topmost result from your site, averaged over the chart or over the table row.
- Google Ads Help: Ad preview and diagnosis tool
Official documentation · Confirmed on:
Read on 15 November 2026: the tool shows how an ad appears in live search results without affecting impression data and helps find out why an ad is not showing; it may not reflect all campaign activity.
- Google Terms of Service
Official documentation · Confirmed on:
Read on 15 November 2026: lists misuse of services, including using automated means to access content in violation of the machine-readable instructions on a service's pages.
- ipinfo.io
Official documentation · Confirmed on:
Read on 15 November 2026: a request to ipinfo.io/json returns the IP and its country, region and city as JSON; the result is the database's estimate.
- Proxy302 product facts and price list
Product observation · Confirmed on:
Product facts file of the site (values checked against the console, the backend and the price table in October 2026, protocol tests of 4 November 2026): products, prices in US$ (1 PTC = US$1), lease terms, protocols and ports, countries, no free trial.
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