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It's a setting that you can't change. You can't override it. You can't say "yes I'm really really really sure I want Google to always be in English." It's beyo
by unreal37 5y ago
It's a setting that you can't change. You can't override it. You can't say "yes I'm really really really sure I want Google to always be in English."
It's beyond nuts. And "catering to the computer illiterate" can't be the explanation.
- netsharc 5y agoAt least for google.com, you can use google.com/ncr to get it[1] in English (just tested in incognito mode from a non-English location). [1] it = the front page. No guarantees that it'll work for other parts or other Google sites like Google Maps[2]. I remember noticing years ago that even with the /ncr, when the front page had a doodle, mousing over it still showed the tooltip in the local language. Billions of dollars, and can't even program a website. [2] Yeah it still gives me my local currency for hotels in Google Maps. I live in country A, I was visiting country B, and I needed to find a hotel in my home country A. I was logged in. Google knows my address and that my account is tied to Country A (because... Play Store region locking for content, blah blah), but it still showed me the hotel prices for the country I live in and was looking for hotels in, in the foreign currency of the place I was currently sitting at. Fuck you very much, Google!
- dagw 5y agoyou can use google.com/ncr to get it[1] in English I just tried, and while the page is in English, the top search results it returned are localized results to the country I happen to live in.