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    Change how Chrome search works

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by agusman, Apr 12, 2011.

  1. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    I use Google as the default search engine for Chrome.

    However, I don't want it to redirect me to my local Google page, I want it to search on google .com.

    when I go to options --> manage search engines --> Default search options

    Google search shows this code:

    but it is not editable... how can I change it?
     
    agusman, Apr 12, 2011
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  2. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    I dont think you can edit Google but you can add a custom Google2 and put whatever you want. Then make Google2 default.
     
    wave, Apr 12, 2011
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  3. agusman

    agusman when the going gets weird

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    I found that the Wikipedia search field is editable, while the others aren't (for some strange reason)...

    so I edited that, and used this:

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%s

    it seems to work so far. I tried with:

    http://www.google.com/ncr/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%s

    but it doesn't work...
     
    agusman, Apr 12, 2011
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  4. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    that is your dns causing it to search that page...this happend to me till i found a fix... theres a option on the dns search page to turn that feature off or you can use a different dns
     
    Texanman, Apr 12, 2011
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