Search preferences

The Search section sets how your results are fetched and shown. These preferences are stored on your account, so they follow you to every device you sign in on. Change any of them and select Save to apply.

Results

Results per page sets how many results a page holds: 10, 20, 30, or 50. A larger page means fewer page loads and more scrolling.

Region & language

Region biases results toward one country (the request's gl). The default, Auto, infers a region from your connection. The list spans the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, Mexico, India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and South Africa.

Language is the preferred language for results (the request's hl): Auto, or one of English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, or Hindi.

Filtering

Safe search filters explicit and adult results. Off applies no filter; Moderate (the default) filters explicit results; Strict filters the most.

Default time range limits results by recency for every search until you change it: Any time, Past hour, Past 24 hours, Past week, Past month, or Past year. A single search can still override this with a time-range bang such as !week.

Autocorrect & spelling lets the engine fix obvious typos and offer a did you mean correction. Turn it off to search exactly the characters you typed.

Links

Open results in a new tab opens each result link in a new browser tab, leaving the results page in place.

The same settings through the API

Several of these preferences are request parameters on the Search API: gl (region), hl (language), safe (safe search), time (recency), and num (result count). An API request states them per call; it does not read these account settings.