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In Google Chrome, one can select a piece of text on a web page, right click and select "Search with Bing" (Or whatever search engine one has set as the default)
However, I'm having trouble getting Chrome to use my preferred locale for Bing.

I have my English Windows 7 location set to Switzerland, but I have set my Bing preferences to use the U.S. version of Bing. So when I simply browse to http://bing.com I end up on the U.S. Bing, just the way I want.

But when I select a piece of text, right click and do Search with Bing, it uses the Swiss Bing.
I have even set my custom search engine in Chrome to be the US Bing by setting it to:
http://www.bing.com/?scope=web&setmkt=en-us
but I still end up in
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=fr-CH
(which even doesn't make sense, since I'm in the de-CH part of Switzerland.

Anyone have any ideas? How can I force Chrome to use the U.S. Bing?

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Hmm.. I removed the Bing entry I had and added a new one:
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=%s

And now it seems to work fine.

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From within Chrome select Options - Search - Manage Search Options to select the engine you wish to use.

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