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Glassman
Original Poster
17,328 posts
84 months
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I don't want to know how much things are in the U.S of A whenever I search for stuff... How do I set Google UK as the default search?
Just tried and got an epic fail.
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Apache
38,250 posts
153 months
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tools /options /main /home page set google as default
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Spam
1,067 posts
60 months
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Glassman said: I don't want to know how much things are in the U.S of A whenever I search for stuff... How do I set Google UK as the default search?
Just tried and got an epic fail. Do you mean your homepage or by using your search function on your browser? I would recommend downloading the google toolbar too. It's quite good.
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Glassman
Original Poster
17,328 posts
84 months
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Spam said: Glassman said: I don't want to know how much things are in the U.S of A whenever I search for stuff... How do I set Google UK as the default search?
Just tried and got an epic fail. Do you mean your homepage or by using your search function on your browser? I would recommend downloading the google toolbar too. It's quite good. Search function to give me google UK results
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GreenV8S
23,458 posts
153 months
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Bring up the google search page, select the UK radio button, click on search (leave the text field blank). This brings up a new search page with UK selected. Make that your default search page.
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Deva Link
26,934 posts
114 months
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GreenV8S said: Bring up the google search page, select the UK radio button, click on search (leave the text field blank). This brings up a new search page with UK selected. Make that your default search page. That won't work - when you next search for something it'll default back. The only way is to click the radio button. If you use Google UK as the home page it tends to favour UK anyway.
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Apache
38,250 posts
153 months
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GreenV8S said: Bring up the google search page, select the UK radio button, click on search (leave the text field blank). This brings up a new search page with UK selected. Make that your default search page. :yes; by doing this:- tools /options /main /home page set google as default
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Glassman
Original Poster
17,328 posts
84 months
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So what this means is that in order to get all UK searches via Google, I would first have to set Google as homepage?
I've got the search provider option in the tool bar, I just want the default (currently set as Google) to give me UK results and not USA.
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Legmaster
689 posts
76 months
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Deva Link said: GreenV8S said: Bring up the google search page, select the UK radio button, click on search (leave the text field blank). This brings up a new search page with UK selected. Make that your default search page. That won't work - when you next search for something it'll default back. The only way is to click the radio button. If you use Google UK as the home page it tends to favour UK anyway. Oh yes it does, well in FF3 anyway. Works a treat and has kept the UK radio button checked on reopening FF, clicking home, back button, multiple searches and any other means I tried to fool it.
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philthy
4,526 posts
109 months
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Using regedit start-run-regedit
Navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\
Search the key using find (CTRL+F) and look for google.com
Replace the suffix with .co.uk and it should then use the google UK search from the small window in the top of IE7
It might be easier to just search for this key though:
Name: URL type: REG_SZ data: h ttp://www.google.com/search?q={searchTerms}&rls=com.microsoft:{language}:{referrer:source?}&ie={inputEncoding}&oe={outputEncoding}&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GGIH
I've had to put a space between the h & the ttp in the url, because the forum truncates it.
Hope this helps?
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Mr E
14,145 posts
128 months
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stepej
327 posts
109 months
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Using IE?
Tools, Internet Options
3rd Option allows you to change search options...
Follow Instructions.... Job Done
If it's not IE, sorry can't help
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Siddie uk
1 posts
57 months
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Go to settings, top right, then options, click in the search box settings box
and at the bottom in use google site, use the drop down arrow for United Kingdom which you will find at the very top of the page, not where you think it should be under U
Hope this helps
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Scraggles
7,619 posts
93 months
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so complicated
goto the site you want to have as homepage
tools, options, use current site as homepage
no need to pratt around with the registry
probably something similar in IE, but using FF
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philthy
4,526 posts
109 months
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Scraggles said: so complicated
goto the site you want to have as homepage
tools, options, use current site as homepage
no need to pratt around with the registry
probably something similar in IE, but using FF Did you read the whole thread? The OP wants to use the search box in google toolbar, not the default homepage. Even if you set google.co.uk as home page, it still uses google.com in the toolbar until you change some settings. Siddi's post above is the easiest solution so far.
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alex.tvr
276 posts
127 months
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69 coupe
1,595 posts
80 months
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On Google search toolbar.
Click on toolbar settings (green radio button on right side of screen)
settings/options/features/search box settings/
use google site drop down box change to google.uk
oops just realised siddie uk, has already said this.
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chris.mapey
4,593 posts
136 months
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In IE7
Tools > Internet Options > Change Search Providers > Find More Providers > New IE window opens up > See Global Search Guides > United Kingdom (English) > choose Google from the list.
That seems to work for me.
HTH (if I have)
Chris
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Scraggles
7,619 posts
93 months
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ok yet another long day on the fun packed underground, seems I did miss read the op's post so for firefox, goto the search engine bit on the top right There is the letter G with a button, press the button to reveal "Manage Search Engines" Mine has a list of possibles, clicking on a different one makes it the default be it google, dogpile etc there is even a link called "Get more search engines", gosh, wonder what that could do ? will let someone else explore 
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murphee
1 posts
52 months
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Ok, this is how you do in on a Mac:
Right-click on the FireFox icon within your Applications folder to open up the Contents folder for FireFox.
Here's the path to the file you need to edit: Applications > FireFox > Contents > MacOS > searchplugins > google.xml
Just open with a simple text editor (TextEdit, TextMate, nano) if you've got it, and change the part of the file that says:
<SearchForm>http://www.google.com/firefox</SearchForm>
to this:
<SearchForm>http://www.google.co.uk/firefox</SearchForm>
That should do it. You could change every instance of google.com to google.co.uk in that XML file to be comprehensive about it.
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