[StavrosK]

That makes sense. However, how do you get past the block? Changing the TLD to com redirects me to gr every time.

[nostrademons]

I think that's what the ncr (No Country Redirect) parameter that the article talks about does - it tells Google to not redirect to the appropriate TLD.

[StavrosK]

That was for google.com, but it turns out that it works for blogger as well! Interesting, thank you.