Asides from using i.e. google.co.uk instead of google.com etc, is there any other way of seeing the specific results for different countries/locations?
Also, surely the next Google update is this month, no?
Well if you are in the US and use Google UK you will get different results than someone with an IP based there .. so that is not a solution honestly. You would need to have access to an IP from that country in order to do that accurately. Bruce Clay has a tool that has proxy surfing right from the browser tool bar .. you can specify country you want to search from (limited list right now but growing) – http://www.seotoolset.com/tools/toolbar.html