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#240607 16-Sep-2018 16:49

Hi Guys, my google chrome browser has updated over the last two days, when searching and only wanted to find search results in NZ used to be able to select tools then search only in NZ, how do i get this option back? the whole settings look different now cheers

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#2091614 16-Sep-2018 18:20

Ive always searched with a site extension (not as guaranteed). e.g. add "site:nz" to your search. Will only include websites that end .nz

And taking a look you can still do a region search under settings from within Google. Is that what you meant?

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#2091651 16-Sep-2018 19:16

nzkc:
Ive always searched with a site extension (not as guaranteed). e.g. add "site:nz" to your search. Will only include websites that end .nz

And taking a look you can still do a region search under settings from within Google. Is that what you meant?

I have google.nz as default home page . I can see it on iPad but not new version of chrome on windows ten lap top. Here’s what I mean sorry bad explanation I no longer see country option only time and all results?.

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#2184107 20-Feb-2019 09:12

I am also having this issue on all of my devices, even my work PC. Even my partners laptop and phone is doing it. It seems that it still does a localised search but defaults to google.com which doesn't have the country specific search option.

Is anyone else having this issue? Or have a way to fix it?

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#2184148 20-Feb-2019 09:21

@nickfalconer:

I am also having this issue on all of my devices, even my work PC. Even my partners laptop and phone is doing it. It seems that it still does a localised search but defaults to google.com which doesn't have the country specific search option.

Is anyone else having this issue? Or have a way to fix it?

Are all these devices connected to your network? Because the IP address I see here for your post is identified as a US number...

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#2184382 20-Feb-2019 15:05

I posted from my work PC (I know they use various proxies and vpn's), but my phone is either on my home wifi or on 2degrees data.

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#2184400 20-Feb-2019 15:18

I am also having this issue, maybe a couple of months ago Google started defaulting to google.com rather than google.co.nz for all my searches so I don't have the country filter option.

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#2184761 21-Feb-2019 11:39

Are any of you doing safesearch enforcement/DNS filtering/DNS blackholing?

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#2184765 21-Feb-2019 11:48

jbard:

I am also having this issue, maybe a couple of months ago Google started defaulting to google.com rather than google.co.nz for all my searches so I don't have the country filter option.

Yeah I also noticed Chrome started defaulting to Google.com both on Android and Windows 10 some time ago - but haven't gotten around to figuring out how/why...

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#2184784 21-Feb-2019 12:23

Option is still available in the advanced search, but yes is gone for me also under the 'Tools' option where it use to sit.

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