change google default search to iphone-optimized google(sort of)

**colmiak** · 11-24-2008, 12:55 AM

so i was really ticked at how when i used the google search bar at the top of safari (right next to the address bar) it would be results in a non-iphone optimized google page.
google has an iphone-optimized google page, what in the world is so hard that apple didnt make it so that when you search in the google search bar you would get iphone-optimized results?!
so yea i decided to figure out how to make safari give me iphone-optimized google results and i partially succeeded

im just gonna show you a bunch of screengrabs to explain what i mean by "sort of/partially"

the following are google results you get if you went to safari and then went to the optimized google page and typed in your query:

thats what i wanted my top google search to do for me but the best i could get it to do was this:

now im not gonna lie, im kinna liking my optimized results a little better bc of how when i search for jessica alba, it showed me images right away

the shorcoming of this mod are that you dont get the google search bar right in the top/middle of the page and you dont get the cool icons to call or get directions (but you can still just click on the number to call or click on the name of the place to get directions)

so what this mod is going to do is basically take you from this:

to this:

now for instructions:
1. download the attached file (GoogleTLDs.zip)
2. unzip/extract GoogleTLDs.plist
3. SSH to /private/var/stash/Applications.xxxxxx/MobileSafari.app
4. rename "GoogleTLDs.plist" to "GoogleTLDs.backup.plist" (i would advise you to also make a copy and keep it somewhere on your computer)
5. copy the modded "GoogleTLDs.plist" from your computer to /private/var/stash/Applications.xxxxxx/MobileSafari.app and when it asks to overwrite say yes
6. Reboot