Thread: Google Search

Gary, the only way I know to do that now is do a search, then when the results come up, restrict the next search to just Australian pages with the tool menu down the LHS.

Add "site:au" to the end of the search term.

ie instead of
toyota breakdowns
type
toyota breakdowns site:au

Originally Posted by rick130

Gary, the only way I know to do that now is do a search, then when the results come up, restrict the next search to just Australian pages with the tool menu down the LHS.

That is how I used to do it but that tool menu is no longer there.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Add "site:au" to the end of the search term.

ie instead of
toyota breakdowns
type
toyota breakdowns site:au

Thanks - that seems to work.

Cheers

Garry

If you use the localised version of google www.google.com.au instead of the international version www.google.com you should still will see the 'Pages From Australia' on the left when you type text into the search box.

That's how it works for me.

Originally Posted by Ferret

If you use the localised version of google www.google.com.au instead of the international version www.google.com you should still will see the 'Pages From Australia' on the left when you type text into the search box.

That's how it works for me.

As I mentioned above, it only does that after I've pressed search in my browser.

Originally Posted by Ferret

If you use the localised version of google www.google.com.au instead of the international version www.google.com you should still will see the 'Pages From Australia' on the left when you type text into the search box.

That's how it works for me.

Not for me - I use Google.com.au and it says Google Australia on the Home Page. It used to be there but disappeared a couple of days ago - maybe it was part of the last update.

Cheers

Garry

Beats me, google comes up like normal from the firefox toolbar in the Australian site, with "pages from Australia" as an option. Have you been clearing cookies? My location is listed (Adelaide SA) with "change location" under that.

Ah, I'm not crazy then.

Just to top it off. When I search by tying the search terms into the URL bar of the browser (I use seamonkey, probably the same in firefox also) I get google opening with the 'advanced search' features accessible from a little 'gear cog' icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

When you directly open google, either the international or localised version, that little 'gear cog' icon does not show, instead there is window badgering you to install Chrome in that upper right hand corner. There seems to be no way of getting to the advance search features in this case.