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original source: https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-results-more-local-and-relevant/ https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-re

original source: https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-results-more-local-and-relevant/ https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-result... One thing Google has traditionally been poor at is supporting people who speak two or more languages. I'm a German living in London, and I already had a hard time getting results in German if I wanted them (often, I go to Wikipedia directly). Changing my location in Google's settings, as described in the article, did not make a difference. Adding &hl=## (e.g. &hl=de ) to a search results ULR still works though. Not ideal...

timthelion 9y ago
This is a real pain point for me as a programmer in Prague. I want all programming language questions to return English results, because the Czech language has no stack-exchange ;), but I want all commercial queries to give Czech results, because I cannot even buy something in the US, even if I wanted to, they just won't ship here. This doesn't end up working very well unfortunately, and I don't know how to get the behavior that I want.
- natoliniak 9y ago
  I use one browser with a geographically based proxy and another one straight trough. Also, commercial VPNs are cheap and pretty reliable these days (the vendor I use has pops in majority of countries). Just a silly game to play with the content providers who are isolating users into specific market regions.
  - timthelion 9y ago
    So now I need a VPN to buy cat food online ;) !
- drusepth 9y ago
  That sucks. One workaround you could use would be to have one browser profile for American searches and one for Czech searches, and flip between the two, even though it's a solution to make things suck just a little bit less.
- TomMarius 9y ago
  I am in Czechia as well and I never had this problem. Searching in English gives me relevant results (about the same as if I was in the USA) and searching in Czech gives me Czech results. Shopping works OK even with English searches - I'd get English speaking Czech shops or German/UK Ebay and Amazon. I have all computer/browser locales set to US English, Google uses that but I remain on the .cz site. Works flawlessly.

timthelion 9y ago

This is a real pain point for me as a programmer in Prague. I want all programming language questions to return English results, because the Czech language has no stack-exchange ;), but I want all commercial queries to give Czech results, because I cannot even buy something in the US, even if I wanted to, they just won't ship here. This doesn't end up working very well unfortunately, and I don't know how to get the behavior that I want.

natoliniak 9y ago
I use one browser with a geographically based proxy and another one straight trough. Also, commercial VPNs are cheap and pretty reliable these days (the vendor I use has pops in majority of countries). Just a silly game to play with the content providers who are isolating users into specific market regions.
- timthelion 9y ago
  So now I need a VPN to buy cat food online ;) !
drusepth 9y ago
That sucks. One workaround you could use would be to have one browser profile for American searches and one for Czech searches, and flip between the two, even though it's a solution to make things suck just a little bit less.
TomMarius 9y ago
I am in Czechia as well and I never had this problem. Searching in English gives me relevant results (about the same as if I was in the USA) and searching in Czech gives me Czech results. Shopping works OK even with English searches - I'd get English speaking Czech shops or German/UK Ebay and Amazon. I have all computer/browser locales set to US English, Google uses that but I remain on the .cz site. Works flawlessly.