Change Chrome Omnibox to use Google's NCR link

Solution 1:

It's not working because you haven't edited [google:baseURL].

Use this string

https://www.google.com/search?q=%s

EDIT: See comments

Solution 2:

Edit Sept 2015: This doesn't seem to work any more.

There's a better way. If you edit the search string in the Preferences, you won't get autofill results. If you do it this way, you will.

Change Chrome's Search Engine to Google.com: http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2013/07/change-chromes-search-engine-to.html

1. Type google.com/ncr in the address bar and search for something
2. Close Chrome
3. Launch Chrome again, open a new tab and search for something using Chrome's omnibox.
4. You should see an infobar that asks you: "would you like to search with google.com instead of [your local Google domain]?"