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Re: Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

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Post by jeanlucas »

denysvitali wrote: post #9
jeanlucas wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sigh worked, I will bookmark this for now, hope it keeps working. Thanks.

It should work across all Google products

My next dream would be to have Google stop suggesting me videos in Brazilian Portuguese... and most recently songs, but that's an app issue, not web :(

Re: Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

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Post by morkalork »

necovek wrote: post #2

Generally, I find the country domains behave consistently: I imagine google.co.uk might still give you English as the main language. But really, Google has been defaulting to a language based on GeoIP data for a long time now.

google.ca in Canada is a little schizophrenic in Québec if you are anglo. Especially when you are switching back and forth. Try an English query first, don't find good results, try French and get the same damn English reddit posts but translated into French? What?

Re: Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized results

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Post by Kwpolska »

Google stopped caring about a good user experience a long time ago, shareholders want more AI slop, not regular searches. I've changed my default search engine to DuckDuckGo, it's much saner overall (although I sometimes need to fall back to Google with !g for extremely niche topics).
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