[sveme]

That Google feature pisses me off massively as well. Let's call it premature personalization. I'm in Germany, yet sometimes I'd actually like to visit news.google.co.uk or .com. Yet it seems to sometimes redirect me to the German news.google or the one I had previously open. On one of my laptops it even redirects me to the Italian one, yet I don't think I ever visited that one. Maybe, just maybe, google could stop thinking it is so much smarter than its users?

By the way, DuckDuckGo now has country/language localization as well, though it does not seem to be the default.