Google-search – How to make Google to display results in IPA

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Google by default shows the results for word definitions (define:) transcribed in American English phonetic notation.
I tried to use /ncr (google.com/ncr) for "no country redirect" and currently avoiding it by using google.co.uk but is there a way to change it from Settings or by adding additional parameters (such as ?hl=en or en-UK or something else) to the query

IPA is International Phonetic Alphabet

What I want to see is this:

Rather than that:

Best Answer

Unfortunately, no, there's no setting in search settings to force word definitions to use IPA notation. Us poor Americans using google.com are stuck with whatever that phonetic spelling is that they use.

It seems that your solution to use google.co.uk is your best option. Another is to use Wiktionary, which includes both phonetic options. (There are any number of tutorials out there about how to add a custom search engine to your browser, so that's probably not as off-putting as it might otherwise be.)

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Google-search – way to make Google search results default to “Past Year”

If you are using the Firefox Google search toolbar, I am not sure how to permanently make that change.

But if you are using the search field (the one that's to the right of the address bar by default), you can write your own search plugin fairly easily.

Following the example on that page, you would put the QDR parameter (as described in another answer) in like so:

<search 
 name="Google: Past Year"
 method="GET"
 action="http://www.google.com/search"
 queryCharset="utf-8"
> 

  <input name="q" user>
  <input name="qdr" value="y">
</search>

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