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Originally Posted by joveblue
1. Google is my home page. This is the same for almost everyone I know.
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This is another thing I never quite understood, partly because of it being redundant with the built-in search field and partly because Google usually isn't my destination and it ends up needlessly taking another second of my time. I have new windows and tabs open to a *blank* page so no time is wasted loading some site I don't want to see and so the URL field has focus and I can start typing immediately (or choose the appropriate bookmark).
But of course I'll admit to being a performance whore in this regard.
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Originally Posted by joveblue
2. The Safari search field is un-customisable and worse, doesn't localise to your local version of Google, so we're all stuck with the US site
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True, it's not customizable, but what do you mean about not localizing? Unless you have a cookie set to override it, Google should choose its language based on your browser's user agent string. Some very quick tests confirm this. I set my system's language preference to "Español" first, restart Safari, and Google searches from Safari show up with Spanish text. I change to "British English", restart Safari, and Google uses what I can only assume is the British
flavour of English.