posted on 2010-09-11 - amd.im/uA39
For those of you who travel internationally like myself, I am certain that you are frustrated when you search Google and find that the results come back in the local, unintelligible language. There are preference settings for this, but for me, they never seem to stick. Here's my solution.
Here's a handy bookmarklet that should bring you back to the good old US English Google for search pages. Drag this link to your bookmarks bar and click it whenever you see a Google search page in the wrong language.
For the curious, here's the code behind it. It's a bit simple and probably leads to Google receiving two localization strings, but fortunately they seem to only use the last one in the URL.
javascript:window.location=window.location.toString()+'&hl=en-US';
amdavidson.com is a simple blog run by Andrew Davidson, a manufacturing engineer with a blogging habit. He sometimes posts 140 character tidbits, shares photos, and saves links. You can also see posts dating back to 2005.