Google search does not respect location (Gloria - KDE)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Mint |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Clement Lefebvre | ||
Bug Description
When I use firefox and the Google search box in the right corner I do not get the results I want.
(and importantly I get wrong results compared with a regular google search - and what other linux-dists give me)
The problem is that I do not get my local (danish) results before any english.
e.g. I type 'test' (no ') in firefox and the top result is:
http://
However if I go to www.google.com I am redirected to www.google.dk and when I search 'test' I am getting
http://
This was just an example, but my point is that your google-search which gives you funds are often useless.
It is a lot more a bug than a feature.
If I e.g. want to buy hardware it is important that I see my locale (danish) pages 'first'.
I have made google.com my home page and I try to avoid using the firefox (google) search.
(I also consider to use Yahoo)
Please fix it.
| Husse (husse) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre) |
| milestone: | none → isadora-rc1 |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Moustacha (moustacha) wrote | #2 |
Localized search does not work
We also recently learned that the calculator in Google (type 1+1 in the search field does not work)
This should be fixed in Mint 9 if possible