The Omnibox defaults to using the default search engine in the list of
Search Engines. Therefore, to use a specific search provider (eg.
google.com or google.co.uk, or whichever) you need to modify the
default search engine. Here's how:
(1) Right-click the Omnibox and select "Edit search engines"
(2) If you care about the specific query string and parameters to your
current search engine (eg. Google), first click and hightlight your
current default search engine, then click Edit, hightlight and copy
the contents of the URL line, and paste it into a temporary text
file. The reason is that the usually default Google search engine
sometimes does not allow it to be edited. Then "Cancel" back to the
Search Engines list.
(3) If you want to modify your Google search engine but it is also the
default, sometimes it is not editable. The easiest way I find to get
around this is to first click and highlight another search engine and
make that the default by clicking "Make Default".
(4) Click and highlight the Google search engine that is giving you
problems and "Remove" it.
(5) Check if you have any other Google search engines with the keyword
you want to use by looking under the Keyword column. If there are,
you can just click, highlight, and "Edit" that one. If not, click
"Add" to create a new one.
(6) The Name entry can be anything. The Keyword entry is used to
trigger the search. If you're setting up for google.com search, enter
"google.com"; if you want google.co.uk search, enter "google.co.uk".
(7) In the URL entry, make sure the search URL starts with the Google
search you want to use and don't use {google:baseURL}. You can also
add in any specific search parameters you saved from the temporary
text file. For example, the simplest Google search queries are:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%s
Then click "OK" to save the search engine.
(8) Click and highlight your updated search engine and click "Make
Default" for it to be automatically used by the Omnibox search. Then
"Close" the search engine list.
On Jul 23, 10:40 am, Matthijs van der Vleuten <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I have to jump through hoops to get Chrome use google.com instead of
> google.nl - the reverse of what you described. The Google-described
> way to change the search TLD (switch to the desired TLD, do a search,
> restart Chrome) doesn't always work either.
>
> An option to select the preferred search TLD would be most appreciated.
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 14:08, Prasenjeet
>
>
>
> Dutta<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I've had an issue with my Chrome install that I'd like to report here,
> > rather than on crbug.com since I can't reproduce this very well, so
> > this 'bug report' isn't very rigorous.
>
> > After 2 months or so of use, my Google Chrome install (currently v
> > 2.0.172.37) suddenly started taking my Google searches to google.com
> > instead of google.co.uk. Going to google.co.uk and doing some searches
> > to re-set the .co.uk preference did not help.
>
> > I followed the tip posted here
> > (http://www.tomergabel.com/GettingGoogleChromeToBehave.aspx
> > ) of going to google.co.uk, doing a search, then closing Chrome and
> > waited for 10 seconds. This solved the problem and now new searches
> > started going to google.co.uk again. However, old searches still in
> > history ( see the red-highlighted portion in this
> > image:http://yfrog.com/27chromep
> > ) continued to go to google.com, which is incorrect behaviour imho.
>
> > Clearing all history fixed this problem.
>
> > I believe it's unreasonable to jump through hoops to change which
> > Google site one goes to. Especially the bit about closing the browser
> > for a while -- most users will intuitively never get it.
>
> > Given that redirecting to a different Google site occurs to quite a
> > few users*, I'd like to ask for a setting to cleanly specify which
> > Google site searches should go to. It could be be a UI dropdown (like
> > the Google toolbar for IE has) or something else entirely -- even a
> > registry/.ini style setting.
>
> > *based on searching for [search goes to google.com not co.uk] alone.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Prasenjeet
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