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  • 20-01-2009 11:31am
    #1
    Turbury
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭


    Hello , I'm not a computer wiz so bear with me here, I'm running IE7 on my pc with the standard google toolbar on the top left of the screen. Problem is it defaults to uk when i so a search, so without typing in google.ie in the address bar I dont have the option to filter "pages from ireland" after the initial search. Can i set the toolbar to google.ie OR google.com with a "pages from ireland" option?


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  • #2
    keen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭keen


    Click Settings>Options>Search Box Settings>Use Google Sites - Ireland


  • #3
    Turbury
    Closed Accounts Posts: 144 ✭✭Turbury


    keen wrote: »
    Click Settings>Options>Search Box Settings>Use Google Sites - Ireland

    Excellent! - So simple, Thank you very much.


  • #4
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    Is there a way to do the same in firefox? (I can't see it)

    I travel a bit and my laptop defaults to searching using the local google, where I'd always like it to use google.ie


  • #5
    keen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭keen


    Khannie wrote: »
    Is there a way to do the same in firefox? (I can't see it)

    I travel a bit and my laptop defaults to searching using the local google, where I'd always like it to use google.ie

    I use Firefox and the settings option is over the far right of the toolbar (using the latest version)


  • #6
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    Khannie wrote: »
    Is there a way to do the same in firefox? (I can't see it)

    I travel a bit and my laptop defaults to searching using the local google, where I'd always like it to use google.ie

    If you mean the Search Box in Firefox itself, try this:
    Open the searchplugins folder located inside the Firefox installation directory. 
Open the file google.src with a text editor like notepad and make a simple change in the following line
action="http://www.google.com/search"
change this to..
action="http://www.google.ie/search" 

Save the file, quite notepad and restart Firefox.


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