Language specific-searches

Is there a Language:Japanese search feature?

[Whoa]

Is there a way to specify what language you want your returned pages to be in WITHOUT using the Advanced Search dialogue?

In other words, I want to type in something like

"Digital Cameras" Language:Japanese

in the www.google.com search box and get back only Japanese language pages. I find it tedious to always have to go to the Advanced Search page to set the language and being able to enter it in the search box as a special thing (like Allinurl: site: etc.) would be nice. Is there any way?

Thanks.

[lazerzubb]

Sorry have never heard of any commando like that.

[heini]

Add to your search string in the address bar

meta=lr%3Dlang_ja

[antizwerg]

this is just a guess, but maybe if you typed in "digitaru kamera" in katakana, the search results would supposedly just return Japanese language :-)...(?)

[takagi]

this is just a guess, but maybe if you typed in "digitaru kamera" in katakana, the search results would supposedly just return Japanese language :-)...(?)

For katakana and also hiragana, you're right. But for kanji, it is a different story. You will see both Chinese and Japanese pages.

Heini is correct for the 'lr' (Language Restrict) meta, but don't forget the extra '&'. This works for the following 35 languages:

lang_ar Arabic
lang_bg Bulgarian
lang_ca Catalan
lang_zh-CN Chinese (Simplified)
lang_zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)
lang_hr Croatian
lang_cs Czech
lang_da Danish
lang_nl Dutch
lang_en English
lang_et Estonian
lang_fi Finnish
lang_fr French
lang_de German
lang_el Greek
lang_iw Hebrew
lang_hu Hungarian
lang_is Icelandic
lang_id Indonesian
lang_it Italian
lang_ja Japanese
lang_ko Korean
lang_lv Latvian
lang_lt Lithuanian
lang_no Norwegian
lang_pl Polish
lang_pt Portuguese
lang_ro Romanian
lang_ru Russian
lang_sr Serbian
lang_sk Slovak
lang_sl Slovenian
lang_es Spanish
lang_sv Swedish
lang_tr Turkish

To restrict a search to one country, you can use the 'cr' (Country Restrict) meta, as in:

meta=cr%3DcountryJP

To limit the search to one country, there is even a simpler way, which doesn't involve changing the URL. Just as you can restrict the search to one site by adding 'site:www.example.com' you can also enter a ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain). So to find all indexed pages with the word 'widget' on sites in Germany, enter the following query:

widget site:.de [google.com]

A little but of topic, but to better understand the 'site:' function, I will give 2 examples:

webmasterworld fiction site:google.com [google.com]
gives 3 pages on 3 different sub domains of Google: 'answers', 'dir' & 'directory'.

webmasterworld fiction site:google.com -site:directory.google.com [google.com]
This time 1 sub domain is filtered and the SERP therefore shows only 2 pages on the sub domains 'dir' and 'answers'.

P.S.
The correct katakana for 'digital' in a normal alphabet is: dijitaru ;)