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

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.

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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?