Konqueror's Web Shortcuts, Google, Cookies and more

Google is great. I just want to say this up front so there are no misconceptions about why the following is interesting. Specifically, I just don't like it that the Google cookie identifies myself to them and they can easily collate years of search queries made by myself. Now, there are several solutions:

-Don't accept the cookie. Then, however you also don't have your preferences.
-Delete cookie from time to time and then redo preferences. Annoying and I'm not doing it as often as I should.
For Firefox there are certain extensions that will do the following (or similar) for you but since I very heavily use Konqueror's "Web Shortcuts" I took the time to modify my search URIs a bit. With this I can specify my preferred language setting as well as have more than ten results on a page and toggle safe searching all of which are used every time I utilize the shortcuts.
One can just edit the default search URI for Google and append variables to achieve this.

&hl=de would set your language to German. This is very helpful when you have several shortcuts say "gges", "ggde" or "ggfr" depending on the content you are currently searching for, since it really does matter in terms of how Google assigns relevance.
&num=50 sets the number of items per page returned. So for more than 10 items you no longer have to click around. Maximum 100 according to Google.
&safe=off toggles your filtering settings. Possible values are on/off. If not set it will default to moderate safe search for images. Non-image searching only seems affected if safe is set to on. I couldn't see a difference between moderate or off for regular searching.
Here is one possible variant that uses all three of these options as well as the KDE defaults.
http://www.google.com/search?q=\{@}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&hl=de

A warning though, at least in recent KDE versions changing your language settings changes web shortcuts, such as to which version of Wikipedia, Google etc your shortcuts are pointing. I did not try out whether this would break modified shortcuts so don't do it if you didn't have your settings written down ;-)

KDE stores these shortcuts as .desktop files and they can be found in the users directory ~/.kde/share/services/searchproviders or for systemwide defaults (in Gentoo) in /usr/kde/3.x/share/services/searchproviders.
This makes exchanging them quick and painless.