Not The Annoyingly Trivial Things-Bitches be cray cray week.

This is now more than trivally annoying: google's (www.google.ie) lack of a foolproof country specific search algorithim (if that's not giving it too much credit).

The vast majority of my searches for services are for things in Ireland. I do not want a restaurant in Dublin, Ohio, and when I type in UCD from Ireland UC Davis in California shouldn't appear anywhere. Neither do I want electrical goods from Australian websites (I can only surmise - and it is a long shot - that my searches on Harvey Norman's Irish website are the connection with Australia). I do not want aluminium windows in Derbyshire when I google aluminium windows Dublin or Ireland (using the "Pages from Ireland" function). On the other hand there is no effective way of searching for a service in the North only and just to exclude all the searches from the Republic (the phrase search "Northern Ireland" doesn't do it and .co.uk obviously is too broad). I cleared the cache and whatever else but Google's country specific feature is only about 75%, maybe 80%, accurate.

When Google first came on the scene their main page had a clear "Pages from Ireland" option. This was brilliant, as you just clicked on that option if you wanted something specific to Ireland. Simple. In 2010, for some bizarre reason, they moved this option under "Tools". But it is not near as effective at weeding out all the non-Irish webpages as it was before - and you have to go into tools every single time. Bring it back, Google, and improve the country specific search feature hugely.