.Markku Reunanen.

Chromium and Google search

October 2nd, 2023

There are some ideological reasons as to why the default Chromium setup doesn’t include Google as one of the default search engines. Whatever the case, it’s also true that many people would like to use it nevertheless. This is more of a note to myself so that I find the magic spell when I need it again. Settings – Search engine – Manage search engines and site search – Site search – Add and then Google, google.com and the mystical blurb:

{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:iOSSearchLanguage}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={inputEncoding}

After this you can make it default by clicking the three dots on the right. Can’t really tell if this is the optimal search string, but it seems to work well. Goodbye to that Yahoo mess.

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