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Here's a permanent fix: - Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings". - Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching fro
by sillysaurus 14y ago
Here's a permanent fix:
- Click on the wrench icon in the upper right. Click "Settings".
- Scroll down to "Set which search engine is used when searching from the omnibox."
- Click Manage search engines
- Scroll all the way down. You'll see three textboxes. Fill the three textboxes in like so:
Googol Googol http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
- Press enter, so that it adds Googol to your list of search engines. Scroll up and find it in the list, then click "Make default".
You now have a permanent way to search Google from within Chrome. Bonus: the URL is clean... there isn't any embedded tracking code or any other junk.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoSweet! I got my clean search URL.
- j_s 14y agoGoogle puts the tracking into the results now too, I used to use the 'Undirect' extension but it's currently losing the constant fight to properly detect and remove the tracking from the results. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgfdhfknogknkglio https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dohbiijnjeiejifbgf... This is a cool concept for many reasons... for example, I should use this to add the pws=0 'temporarily disable personalized search' parameter.
- bigiain 14y agoIf you're going to go to that much trouble anyway, may I suggest using: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s A little bit more privacy, a little bit less trackable (And, for this crowd, I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query strings. The website marketer in me hates it when people do that, the privacy-loving-libertarian in me loves it…)
- saturn 14y agoUnfortunately seems to be US-only: > The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.
- bigiain 14y agoWell, more "dot com domain only" than "US-only". The dns magic underneath encrypted.google.com, www.google.com and www.google.com.au shows that doesn't matter - all three are "in Australia" (at the very least, within 21ms) from where I am (Sydney): [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com.au traceroute: Warning: www.google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.87 traceroute to www-cctld.l.google.com (74.125.237.87), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 3.558 ms 1.766 ms 1.582 ms … 8 syd01s06-in-f23.1e100.net (74.125.237.87) 20.318 ms 20.009 ms 20.457 ms [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.81 traceroute to www.l.google.com (74.125.237.81), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.962 ms 3.753 ms 1.618 ms … 9 syd01s06-in-f17.1e100.net (74.125.237.81) 19.927 ms 20.220 ms 20.404 ms [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute encrypted.google.com traceroute: Warning: encrypted.google.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.100 traceroute to www3.l.google.com (74.125.237.100), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 17.068 ms 8.808 ms 1.609 ms … 8 syd01s12-in-f4.1e100.net (74.125.237.100) 21.235 ms 20.064 ms 19.237 ms
- recoil 14y agoIf I search for something where I might expect a regionally-customised result, like "newspaper", I get "The Sun", "The New York Times" and "The Guardian" from encrypted.google.com, but I get the SMH, "The Australian", etc. etc. from a regular google.com.au search.
- nightpool 14y agoI think that's a general feature of encrypted, no location customizations. (I'd have to double-check to make sure though)