I've noticed a recent trend in many of our web properties that show referral traffic going from localized Google sites (like google.in, google.co.uk, etc) to google.com.

Has anyone else noticed this on their websites as well?

Does any one know why this shift happened?

I've noticed a recent trend in many of our web properties (which have regular .com domain) that show referral traffic going from localized Google sites (like google.co.in, google.co.uk, etc) to google.com.

While we're not able to say with 100% certainty - it looks like the increase in referral traffic from google.com directly correlates with the decrease in traffic we are seeing from the various international versions of Google.

We have not made any changes to our Google Search Console during this time period and our URLs are not setup to be geographically specific.

Has anyone else noticed this on their websites as well?

Does any one know why this shift happened?