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I couldn't agree more. When I began to use the internet to read, learn and communicate with people, I eventually found the anglophone community to be bigger and
by Pmop 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. When I began to use the internet to read, learn and communicate with people, I eventually found the anglophone community to be bigger and wiser. Also, any content would have its counterpart written in English, which was more detailed and better at explaining the concept. So, now a big chunk of the concepts I know I've learned by reading works written in English. One of the consequences is that every time I need to search for something, I'm not going to write the query in my native language. In this regard, Google wants to be helpful in advance and will rank up results written in my native language, which isn't helpful at all since I'll take longer to understand something written in the former, specially if it's something complex. I switched to DuckDuckGo.
Also, now many documentation websites will try to serve their content based on your location. I'm always clicking around.
- ithkuil 6y agoI have the same experience, I use exclusively English to search and read the internet (and also set English as the language on all my devices, forcing it also on my wife's phone, not least because it makes it easier to search for error messages and related solutions). That said, I found it sufficient to switch Google to English and I didn't have to ditch that search engine just because of that reason alone (you might have other good reasons to do it though). I think I used https://google.com/?hl=en https://google.com/?hl=en to set the language; but since it remembers that setting honestly I have no idea if it's still the way to switch languages
- account42 6y agoGoogle will regularly forget your language setting if you're not logged in.