Forcing Google Chrome to use google.com

Here’s the scenario. You don’t live in the good old U.S.A., but you do want Google Chrome to use: google.com for your searches.

The solution

• Open Google Chrome
• Click the wrench icon (top right hand corner)
• Click Options
• Click Basics (left hand column)
• Click Manage Search Engines
• In Other search engines add the following (there are 3 fields)
  Field 1 – Add a new search engine: Google USA
  Field 2 – Keyword: google.com
  Field 3 – URL with %s in place of query:
http://www.google.com/search?{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}sourceid=chrome&ie={inputEncoding}&q=%s
  ***Note – Make sure this is pasted without any spaces or line breaks
• Click Enter to save the URL
• With the mouse, hover over the new entry that you’ve just created and click on the Make default button