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1.11. Setting Preferences
Google's Preferences page, shown in Figure 1-5, provides a nice, easy way to set and save
your searching preferences.
Figure 1-5. Google's Preferences page
1.11.1. Interface Language
You can set your Interface Language, affecting the
language in which tips and messages are displayed. Language choices
range from Afrikaans to Zulu, with plenty of odd options, including
Bork, bork, bork! (the Swedish Chef), Elmer Fudd, and Pig Latin,
thrown in for fun.
1.11.2. Search Language
Not to be confused with Interface Language, Search Language
restricts what languages should be
considered when searching Google's page index. The
default is any language, but you could be interested only in web
pages written in Chinese and Japanese, or French, German, and
Spanishthe combination is up to you.
1.11.3. SafeSearch Filtering
Google's SafeSearch filtering
affords you a method of avoiding search results that may offend your
sensibilities. No filtering means you're offered
anything in the Google index. Moderate filtering rules out explicit
images, but not explicit language. Strict filtering filters both text
and images. The default is moderate filtering.
1.11.4. Number of Results
By default, Google displays 10
results per page. For more
results, click any of the "Result Page: 1 2
3..." links at the bottom of each result page, or
simply click the "Next" link.You can specify your preferred number of results per page (10, 20,
30, 50, or 100), along with whether you want results to open in the
current window or a new browser window.
1.11.5. Settings for Researchers
For the purpose of research, it's best to have as
many search results as possible on the
page. Because it's all text, it
doesn't take that much longer to load 100 results
than it does to load 10. If you have a computer with a decent amount
of memory, it's also good to have search results
open in a new window; it'll keep you from losing
your place and leave you a window with all the search results readily
available.If you can stand it, leave your filtering turned off, or at least
limit the filtering to moderate instead of strict. Machine filtering
is not perfect and, unfortunately, enabling it might mean that
you'll miss something valuable. This is especially
true when you're searching for a phrase that might
be caught by a filter, such as "breast
cancer." Unless you're absolutely sure that you always want
to do a search in one language, I'd advise against
setting your language preferences on this page. Instead, alter
language preferences as needed using the Google Language Tools
["Language Tools" earlier in this
chapter].Between the simple search, advanced search, and preferences,
you've got all the tools necessary to build the
Google query to suit your particular purposes.
