Tanja asks:
In my old, busted laptop I had GAS (Google Advanced Search) on my bookmarks bar in English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish (I’m a translator).
Now, with this new, fancy laptop, I’m unable to get away from the cursed Finnish language GAS. I tried the tricks I found in a Q&A from last year – no luck. Whatever I write in the address bar, be it .se, .no, .com, Google always decides that it’s best for me to stick to the Finnish language GAS.
I would really appreciate help with this, thank you in advance!
Browser: Firefox 16
System: Windows 7 Home Premium
Tagged: change default, change language, google search, web browser, website tips
System: Windows 7 Home Premium
Tagged: change default, change language, google search, web browser, website tips
7 Answers -
ha14
October 29, 2012Try clearing your cache and cookies and then changing your setting, make sure that you have cookies enabled on your browser, sometimes past settings get preserved through cookies even when you try to change them.
bookmark this http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en or change to your language?
Search settings
http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35892
go this page for setting language
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en
Manuel Guillermo López Buenfil
October 30, 2012Ok, this is what I found.
Start by searching anyhing, then go to advanced search by clicking in the cog icon to the right. That’ll take you to a default advanced search page, with an URL like this:
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
There, the last two letters (after ‘hl=’) indicate the language. It will be ‘en’ for English, ‘sv’ for Swedish, ‘da’ for Danish, ‘no’ for Norwegian and ‘fi’ for Finnish.
So, for example, the URL for the Swedish search would be:
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=sv
If you want to check the code of a particular language, start by going to the following site:
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en#languages
In the top option, where it says “Which language should Google products use? “, select the language you want to check. That will change your Google language. Then, go to “Advanced search” in that language to check the code. It will be the second option inside the cog icon. The language code always is located after ‘hl=’ in the URL.
Boni Oloff
October 30, 2012Have you try not to login with your google account?
Try to lock out from all the google you use.
Manuel Guillermo López Buenfil
October 30, 2012Use the following addresses for English, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=sv
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=da
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=no
https://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=fi
Use the following page to manually change your language:
http://www.google.com/preferences?hl=en#languages
straight forward answer, thanks for this simple and straight answer
October 30, 2012Yes, this is the best. Just bookmark these addresses and log out from any google service you might logged into.
October 30, 2012Manuel Guillermo López Buenfil
October 30, 2012For some reason, I can’t post the answer here.
Visit this link to get my answer:
http://pastebin.com/TYrEtgNf
Manuel,
Your comments went into moderation, that’s all. They are all published now. Sorry for the hold up.
October 30, 2012Yiz Borol
October 30, 2012manually type in google.se or google.com or whichever search you want, then right click in the searchbar (in the page not the omnibar) and select add as search engine.
Then you can give it a special keyword shortcut.
And whenever you want to search using that engine just type the keyword in the omnibar and then whatever it is you’re searching.
Tanja Saarinen
November 10, 2012Wonderful! Thank you very very much for your answers. Manuel, your tip worked and now I have my lovely line of five different language googles on my bookmark bar. So happy!