English Search in Google.com.kw

December 30, 2008

I found searching using Google very annoying after they started using a local domain. All the results were always in Arabic. I usually had to go to google.com then click on “English” to allow the search default language to be in English.

Not only that, but it quickly goes back to being in Arabic again after a while, and it just got too annoying for my taste.

I found that adding “&hl=en” to the end of the URL automatically changed the current search query into English!

For example if the URL was as follows:

http://www.google.com.kw/search?hl=ar&q=sandbox&lr=&aq=f&oq=

Would turn into:

http://www.google.com.kw/search?hl=ar&q=sandbox&lr=&aq=f&oq=&hl=en

That’s it!

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