I am living in China, but I am an English speaking Canadian.
Safari's omnibar search defaults to google.hk.
I would prefer it to use google.ca.
How can I change this without an extension or plug in?
Thanks.
OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
From the menu bar, select
▹ System Preferences... ▹ Language & Region
Select the region you want from the Region menu. Close the preference pane. You may have to log out and log back in for the change to take effect.
I have figuered it out!
I had the same problem for a couple of days since I arrived to China but there is one way.
Open up two tabs in safari.
1st tab: just make a search for anything and you will be redirected to www.google.com.hk
2nd tab: go to your country site for me its www.google.se but for you its .ca
go to the symbol in the upper-right corner, its either your avatar or a "gearwheel".
now you can see that option #1 is "SEARCH SETTINGS" now go to www.google.com.hk and press on the same place and on the first option. Apperently you cant read chinese this is why we have two tabs =)
now there is a new choice and it #2 in the left collumn. chose language.
now choose you language in the list of countries. did this help you out?
I have the region set to Canada.
The problem is with Safari.
When I am in Canada, it searches google.ca, but in China the default search engine changes to google.hk.
This is problematic because the majority of the search results are for Chinese websites.
I need this same info for iPhone. I live in germany and don't read enough German. Google always sends me to google.de when I want to be on google.com with English.
If you have a Google account, you may be able to set the default country. Otherwise I don't know of anything else you can do.
There is a simpler way. Go here http://www.google.com/ncr
To let google install the ''no country redirect" cookie.
And in case you want to reactivate this functionality, just delete google cookies.
Hi Dragouf,
Does the same work on iPads/iPhones too?
How do I change the default country Safari uses to search?
