I'm too bored of seeing sites like Google and such show up in my native language, I would rather like them to be in English. Yet, I have to explicitly change the URL to .com and en and that kind of parameters in order for them to show up in English. Can I somehow force this?
So, how is Google configured?
However, it is set to English on the site itself so it has to be my browser:
Then, how does my browser land up on non-english pages, like Google?
It usually shows up in non-English when I'm performing a search, which uses:
{google:baseURL}search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:instantFieldTrialGroupParameter}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%sWhen performing a search, it fills these variables in with non-english values.
How can I tell my browser to fill these in with the English values?
My Google Chrome options give preference to English:
3 Answers
There are two options available for configuration:
which language should Google products use
which language(s) should be used for search results
Open Google Chrome, in address bar type in:
You can configure more than 1 language for search results, while only 1 can be set for Google products.
Configure appropriate settings and Save them.
In %LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data there is a file Local State which contains the {google:baseURL} information. While temporarily closing Google Chrome, I simply filled in the URL instead which resolved my problem:
{ "browser": { "enabled_labs_experiments": [ "conflicting-modules-check", "extension-apis", "preload-instant-search", "print-preview" ], "hung_plugin_detect_freq": 2000, "last_known_google_url": "", "last_prompted_google_url": "", "last_redirect_origin": "", "plugin_message_response_timeout": 30000 },If you use Chrome, you can force all Google services to use English with this extension:
