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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Hello, my Opera default engines are local (non-English) versions of Google, Wikipedia and others. I want to use the English versions (www.google.com, en.wikipedia.org and so on). I have set my preferred language to English (US) but the search engines are still local. How can I use the English versions?

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        leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

        @carlcox Edit the 'Local State' file and change the country code at:

        "location":{"country":"br","country_from_server":"BR","timestamp":"1529508671600000000"}
        
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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by A Former User

          Hey. You can create new searches for searching Google in English and the English Wikipedia, and set custom keywords to use them.

          • Go to the search engine settings (opera://settings/searchEngines)

          • Create a search that points to the location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s with a custom keyword (e.g. "wk") and title

          Screenshot:

          0_1518209372253_screenshot.png

          It's a bit trickier to use Google.com as someone in the US would see it, because Google is forcing local results mixed in with English-language results even when you force it to stay in the Google.com domain. You can try it to see what I'm talking about by creating a search that points to the location: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s&gws_rd=cr

          A workaround is to use a parameter to filter out domains from your country. For example, if you are in France, you can use this: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s+-site:fr&gws_rd=cr

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @leocg last edited by

            @leocg said in Non-English default search engines:

            @carlcox Edit the 'Local State' file and change the country code at:

            "location":{"country":"br","country_from_server":"BR","timestamp":"1529508671600000000"}
            

            Thank you, this works for all search engines except Google.

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                @carlcox Try cleaning cookies for Google.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    @andremoniz That's good enough for me, thank you. Is there a way to assign it to the default keyword (g)?

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                    • leocg
                      leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                      @carlcox Nope.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User @leocg last edited by

                        @leocg That's bad, but thank you for the information.

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