View US Google SERPs from outside US.

[Generalissimo]

If you do a search for a product or even some non products (say Chris was on holiday in France and wanted to see how his gardening site was doing on google, a search for gardening would bring up a lot of French sites before it brought up the US ones).

The answer is remarkably simple: http://www.google.us

It redirects you to the .com, but remembers you typed in .us so displays US results.

[ZigE]

Even then, it still doesn't give the same results as if you were searching inside the US. It's best to search through a US based proxy site.

Google are very smart with there geo targetting.