Google’s blogger started redirecting their users to country specific domain names.
A Blogger’s support post, “Why does my blog redirect to a country-specific URL?,” says about it.
Readers will be redirected to sites with their own country’s domain name when they try to visit blogs recognized as foreign, as determined by their IP addresses.Ongoing pressure from different governments may makes Google to censor country based censorship.
If you are in India and viewing www.qualitypoint.blogspot.com,it will be automatically redirected to www.qualitypoint.blogspot.in.
Google says “Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country’s law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD“.
Recently Twitter also announced country based censorship.
Blogger Blog readers may request a specific country version of the blogspot content by entering a specially formatted “NCR” URL.
NCR stands for “No Country Redirect” and will always display the Blogger blogin English, whether you’re in India, Brazil, Honduras, Germany, or anywhere.
For example: http://qualitypoint.blogspot.com/ncr – always goes to the U.S. English blog. (e.g http://qualitypoint.blogspot.com/ )
And, Google informed that it uses rel=canonical tag for minimizing the SEO impact by the duplicate content on multiple country specific domains.
