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Change Google search country with a bookmark Internet
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:

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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Change Google search country with a bookmark
Authored by: ghay on May 01, '06 08:55:09AM

You can also cheat and use the old array expansion technique, which is what i do

javascript:location.href=location.href.split(%22.com%22).join(%22.co.uk%22);



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Change Google search country with a bookmark
Authored by: emale on May 01, '06 10:34:22AM
Normally when you enter a string in the google search bar you will be directed to the google-site of your country (google.de in my case). But sometimes my Safari "forgets" it is german and also begins to search under google.com
With Safari Enhancer you can set the Safari preference to the google of your choice.
So you are able to directly search google.de or google.ch when entering a search in the Safari google bar without any JavaScript-tricks ;-)

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Change Google search country with a bookmark
Authored by: solipsism on May 01, '06 12:28:33PM
I use Acid Search for this. A nifty little plug-ing that makes make great use of your search window. It also has a very handy find-as-ypu-type feature.

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Change Google search country with a bookmark
Authored by: Mr Clicky on May 01, '06 06:30:33PM

Also works for us non-English speaking Australians ;-)



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