Comments on: How to configure your Google search preferences & search within results

By: Jennifer Prokhorov

Jennifer Prokhorov — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 12:51:24 +0000

I felt shocked to learn this morning that according to Google’s search results, the people in the world who gave the most and who deserve the most public recognition for their generosity on 9 / 11 are right here in YVR, Vancouver’s local airport! My understanding of the events of 9 / 11 is that the events actually happened in a place called America, and that according to most of the world, YVR was actually uninvolved.

I want to configure Google search results to stop being myopic. I want to be able to see world news, rather than being forced to be limited to seeing merely what people on Commercial Drive were talking about when world news was being produced by productive people in other parts of the world. Does anyone in Davos, Dubai, New York, Moscow or London imagine that the most important events of 9 /11 happened in a Canadian city called Nanaimo? According to Google, the appropriate top search result for news about 9 / 11 on 10.09.2011 is all about Nanaimo.

I attempted to change the level of myopia Google has been trying to force me to accept and found these good people who relocated to America and a year later were still being considered by Google to be in Canada: http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3742403.htm

How much is Canada paying Google under the table for so much “protection”? I prefer fair, honest and open competition, with search results actually being genuinely relevant and a search engine which operates with integrity.

By: William

William — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:40:03 +0000

After setting my preferences with the Portuguese Brazil language and performing a search, the language changes back to english. How do I set it so that the language is always in Portuguese Brazil?

Thank you.

By: Customize Google home page and search results using CustomizeGoogle

Customize Google home page and search results using CustomizeGoogle — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:39:42 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:45:59 +0000

Wow, like magic, search within results has returned. Getting comments to Google is either impossible or not worth the effort. In the future they should maybe poll their users before pulling a stunt like removing a useful tool. Search within results was my main purpose of using Google also.

By: KJK

KJK — Wed, 28 May 2008 19:08:52 +0000

Same here… I watched the “Search Within Results” option disappear from Google yesterday before my very eyes. One moment it was there… then it was gone. What’s REALLY odd is that I switched over to a laptop and ran Firefox and it was STILL there. It was just gone from my Firefox and MSIE on my desktop. So today I checked again. Same story. “Search within results” still missing from Google if I use my desktop but is NOT missing from the page if I use my laptop.

So I tried something. I realized I hadn’t cleared my browser cache lately ( or cookies ) on my laptop so I did that and then hit Google again just now.

WHAMO… “Search within results” is now also missing from Google page(s) from BOTH my Desktop and Laptop.

So this has something to do with a ‘Cookie’.
If you haven’t cleared your browser Cookies then you are probably still seeing the “Search within results” option.

The moment you clear your browser cache/cookies… it’s going to vanish ( Forever? ).

Have they lost their minds at Google?

It’s just a Search engine. That’s all they do.
Don’t fix what isn’t broken or your entire reason
for being can vanish as fast as you can say “Yahoo”.

The ONLY reason I was using Google in the first place
was because of that handy “Search within Results” option.
I am now no longer using Google at all.

If they don’t put that “Search within results” option back I think they are committing “Search engine suicide”.

Could it be that they want to CHARGE for it now?
Rumors abound that Google is losing money like holes punched in the bottom of a corn silo. Maybe they are starting to get desperate and are going to create some kind of “pay to play”
account. It won’t work.

By: MBA

MBA — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:35:35 +0000

Also missing “search within results”! Lost without it. Any explanation??

By: Gerry Nolan

Gerry Nolan — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:11:36 +0000

Thanks for the post. Perhaps you can tell me where the “Search within results” button has gone from the Google search page. Without it I feel as though my arm has been cut-off!!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:07:43 +0000

Some time during the day, Google has removed the “search within resusts” option. I use this a lot. Do you have any comments on this?