A while back, I wrote about how to customize Opera to use a dictionary.com shortcut. Well, today I was searching for some MySQL stuff and I swear every result was for a French page. I realized that when this happens I usually search for stuff and then go to Goggle's "Advanced Search" page and click English and 100 results and search again. Then I realized that I had customized Opera once, so why not do it some more?

In your $HOME/.opera/search.ini file, search for the string Name=&Google. It should be right at the top. Change the URL=... line to this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s#=100&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&lr=lang_en&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&sourceid=opera

When you restart Opera, you should be able to it F8+g, enter a search term and then wind up with 100 results per page and every search result linked to an English language page.