For non-English speakers, this hint allows you to change the country that Google uses when searching from Safari. Whenever you enter a search into the Google search field in Safari, the search is made on the US Google. But if you want to search on your country's Google, such as, in this example, Switzerland, you can create a bookmark such as the following:
Put this bookmark in your Bookmark Bar, then click it after you've run your Google search. This reloads the search for the appropriate country.
[kirkmc adds: We've run a hint about changing the country for Google searches in Firefox, but not for Safari. While this won't change the initial search, a single click changes the country for the search, then lets you continue to search within that country on Google. Note that, in the above code, you need to replace "CH" with the country code you want to use. ]
javascript:url=new String(self.location); replaceString ='.com'; regExp =/\.com/gi; newURL =url.replace(regExp,'.ch'); self.location=newURL+'&hl=de&meta=cr%3DcountryCH';Put this bookmark in your Bookmark Bar, then click it after you've run your Google search. This reloads the search for the appropriate country.
[kirkmc adds: We've run a hint about changing the country for Google searches in Firefox, but not for Safari. While this won't change the initial search, a single click changes the country for the search, then lets you continue to search within that country on Google. Note that, in the above code, you need to replace "CH" with the country code you want to use. ]
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