Customize Your Results

Google enables you to save certain search preferences, including the number of results to show per page, the interface language, and whether or not to use SafeSearch filtering. Click here to set your language, display, and filtering options, or read on for more info...

Interface Language

Google puts the "World" in "World Wide Web" with our multi-language search service. Set the Google homepage, messages, and buttons to display in your native language by saving your preferences. Google currently offers the display languages below.

If you don't see your native language listed, you can help Google create it by becoming a volunteer translator. Check out our Google in Your Language program.

Google breaks the language barrier with this translation feature. Using machine translation technology, Google now gives English speakers access to a variety of non-English web pages. This feature is currently available for pages published in Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese.

If your search has non-English results, there will be a link to a version of that page translated into English.

For more information about this feature, please read the translation FAQ.

Search Language

Google's language search feature lets you restrict your searches to pages in the language(s) that you choose. Because these language-restricted searches only look at pages from a small portion of the web, however, Google recommends the "Search web pages written in any language" option as a default. Specifying a search language can be quite useful, however, when you want to search for content that is specific to a particular language or region.

Number of Results

Google's default setting of 10 provides the fastest results. However, you can increase the number or results displayed per page to 20, 30, 50 or 100.

New Results Window

If you prefer to retain the main Google search page, check this preference box to open your results in a new browser window.

SafeSearch Filtering

Many Google users prefer not to have adult sites included in their search results. Google's SafeSearch screens for sites that contain pornography and explicit sexual content and eliminates them from search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, Google's filter uses advanced proprietary technology that checks keywords and phrases, URLs and Open Directory categories.

By default, moderate filtering is set to exclude most explicit images from Google Image Search results. To apply Google's SafeSearch filtering to both web search and image search results, select the strict filtering option on the web search preferences page and save your preferences. This will activate stricter filtering of images, as well as filtering of adult content in regular Google search results. To turn off filtering completely, select the "do not filter..." option. The filtering option you select on the Preferences page will remain on until you change and resave your preferences. You can also adjust your SafeSearch settings on the Advanced Search or the Advanced Image Search pages on a per search basis.

Google strives to keep the filtering information as current and comprehensive as possible through continual crawling of the Web and by incorporating updates from user suggestions. If you find sites that contain offensive content in your results, even with SafeSearch activated, please send an email with the site's URL to &#115afesearch@google.com and we will investigate it.