[MartiNZ]

It has been annoying me recently that Safari's Google search box uses google.com - I would like to have it use google.co.nz so that I would have the option to restrict to pages in New Zealand easier.

Anyone know if this can be done with some simple editing, or is 3rd party software required?

Cheers.

[jyunderwood]

sorry but I don't know of a way to do it without a third party addon.

I would suggest http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/ or http://www.pozytron.com/?acidsearch

[dslack70]

I had the same problem with Belgium. Safari always looks in Google France.
To solve my problem, I had to modify Safari binary (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari) with an hexadecimal editor.
I only replace http://%@.google.com/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 by http://%@.google.be/%@?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
As I've a byte missing '.com' --> '.be', i put a blank before the http, so the size stay the same.
Now, when I do a search, it search using Belgium Google.

The only backdraw of this, is the fact that I must do the hack, everytime Safari changes.

I hope, this can help.

Cheers

Edit:
Oops, it may not help, because in your case, you have two letters more '.com' --> '.co.nz' and not less.
What you can do, is do the same, and remove unecessary parameters such as 'ie=UTF-8' or 'oe=UTF-8', so you gain place
and put as many blanks as necessary before http.