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Title makes it sounds like you're stuck with Google-of-whatever-country-you're-in. You're not: you just have to select the country you want from settings instea
by drusepth 9y ago
Title makes it sounds like you're stuck with Google-of-whatever-country-you're-in. You're not: you just have to select the country you want from settings instead of typing in its TLD now.
From the article:
>If for some reason you don't see the right country when you're browsing, you can still go into settings and select the correct country service you want to receive. Typing the relevant ccTLD in your browser will no longer bring you to the various country services—this preference should be managed directly in settings.
- chewz 9y agoIt is acctually change for good as long as you are staying logged in.
- Sylos 9y agoHow is it a change for good? Just seems like Google Search is becoming even clumsier for bilingual people. Sometimes I want results in my mother-tongue, sometimes I want results in English. And I expect my search engine to have a way to quickly specify that without going into the settings each time.
- drusepth 9y agoIt's definitely a change for good for me. There might have been a way to set the locale in my settings before I didn't know about, but I've moved to a new country every month for over a year now and I never want to be redirected to the local Google (for a bunch of reasons). It's nice that I can just set American/Google.com apparently now, instead of manually flipping back every time I use google/maps.
- 482794793792894 9y agoAlright, but it really doesn't seem to me like fixing this issue for you would require breaking the search for bilingual people. There's gotta be so many better ways to resolve that.
- drusepth 9y agoJust so I understand the problem, is search now broken for bilingual people because they sometimes prefer search results in one locale/language and sometimes prefer other search results in a different one? I also speak Spanish (and some Dutch), but I can't think of any time I'd actively want to use their local-Google, even while I lived in the Netherlands.
- 482794793792894 9y agoAs I understand it, English is your mother tongue. If so, that's probably why you don't have this issue. For me, French is my mother tongue and I live in France. So, there's lots of things that I'd want to research that are specific to France (laws, culture, geography etc.) and then obviously, if you speak French fluidly, you get much more precise and detailed information for these in French texts. If you're lucky, the English text is just a bad translation, but more often than not, the English text assumes that you must be some guy from a foreign country that really doesn't care about specifics and instead just wants an overview. On the other hand, if I need to look up technical information or most international science, then English is the lingua franca, what gives you the best results in most cases. In some cases, I'll even try both languages, just to make sure I'm not missing any useful information or to gauge which language gives better results (for example when a globally usable technology happens to be exceptionally popular in France).