Google search US ????

Is there a way to set things up so that when I'm running a Google search, it only pulls up American websites?

Man, you could just take "any language" and swap it out for "English"...

No, that's not quite it. What I mean is, I want to type in a specific word and have it pull up nothing but links to American websites—you know, sites actually written in English
For instance, if I type "HDtune," it’ll spit out a million different links from all over the web, but all I'm looking for are the ones using our language, specifically those ending in .com

That’s exactly why I suggested using that option in the first place.

ironcyclist58:
The specific American version of the site functions more as a way to interpret commands than to filter results—it just lists "everything" containing those terms (unless you're searching for words exclusive to one language that mean nothing in any other language, which isn't particularly likely)

Morgan Ortiz6:
Try this or click here, or just type into the address bar (where you usually paste a URL):
https://www.google.com/

The Google interface (buttons and everything else on the homepage) will likely follow your account settings rather than being set to American by default.

Below the "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky" buttons (they don't have to be in English), click on 'American':
"Google offered in: American" (along with potentially other languages)

Type something into the search box (a word, number, letter—doesn't matter) and hit "Google Search"

Then, at the top right, next to 'All - Images - Maps - ...', go to "Tools", select "All results", and then click "Verbatim"

For my purposes—when I specifically need American results—using Google.com works well enough...

Man, you guys really made this way more complicated than it needs to be 😁

HDtune site:com

It's honestly as easy as pie 👍

There are actually some pages written in American that don't even have ".com" in the URL.

ironcyclist58 said:There are actually some pages written in American that don't even have ".com" in the URL.

Well, they don't necessarily need to have the domain suffix if they are hosted on an American domain, I suppose.

If someone really wants to dig deep, they could probably just make use of the advanced search features

https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Or maybe even try adding the lr=lang_en operator directly into the URL, which might work

https://www.google.com/search?q=HDtune&lr=lang_en

Look, they don't even need to be on a .us domain (plus, just because a site uses a US domain doesn't mean everything on there has to be in English).
The easiest way is just what I suggested to him—literally three clicks of the mouse...

ironcyclist58 said:Look, they don't even need to be on a .us domain (plus, just because a site uses a US domain doesn't mean everything on there has to be in English).
The easiest way is just what I suggested to him—literally three clicks of the mouse...

It doesn't actually matter which domain you're looking at; what you really need is to run a search specifically for the content-language: en meta tag.

Kenneth Cruz67 said:Man, you guys really made this way more complicated than it needs to be 😁

HDtune site:com

It's honestly as easy as pie 👍

Seems I have; searching for "HDtune" using my method yields absolutely zero results that aren't in English.
(though, as previously stated, it works perfectly fine for my specific needs—using American keywords)

HDtune site:us

That follows my formula exactly (looking at the American results for that keyword)👍

Kenneth Cruz67 said:Man, you guys really made this way more complicated than it needs to be 😁

HDtune site:com

It's honestly as easy as pie 👍

Nice one, man. So that basically means it's just going to dig up pages written in English for me.

Sweet, so I tried something like this: adobe photoshop site:us
and it just pulled up every single page talking about Photoshop in American English.
Exactly what I was looking for.