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Google search - No region

My machine (in NZ) is connected via proxy in Australia or on occaison in the UK.
By default going to google.com will redirect (based on my current proxy) to the regional sites google.com.au or google.com.uk. by using the following URL I am redirected to google.com without redirection.

www.google.com/ncr

NCR = no country redirect

I discovered this here

What was XTRA thinking

Yesterday I posted an article about the Google streetview technology.
I saw it last year and took a virtual tour of Brooklyn NY. Brilliant.
I never dreamed that NZ would be in the first 10 countries to get this. Well done Google.

So when XTRA, the number one ISP in NZ (by volume) looked for a partner to offload their e-mail capability they selected Yahoo.
I assume this 'partnership' was because of the care and concern Yahoo has for our country.
just look at the stunning level of detail in the auckland Yahoo map

Pitiful.

Yahoo mail is hostile, the data is stored off shore and XTRA is still crashing more often then a drunk university student in Palmerston north.

Can anyone recommend an ISP that is affordable and still works for their money?