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The wifi thing is just plain bad design. But the language detection... it amazes me that this complaint has ever come up. I experience this a lot and have for

The wifi thing is just plain bad design. But the language detection... it amazes me that this complaint has ever come up. I experience this a lot and have for years during my travels. It's impossible for me to even care about the mild inconvenience because the population is almost exclusively people from the country I'm a guest in. It's not even worth checking the headers to better "guess" what language or destination a person wants on the off chance they're a tourist, visitor or expat, it'd probably be wrong more of the time from pirated copies of Windows in English. The country extension of the domain is, like the rest of the domain, an irrelevant detail - why make them google for facebook.dk or twitter.com.ar and remember what site uses country extensions vs .com when in almost all cases they don't need to?

_delirium 15y ago
I'm okay with it as the default, but I'm baffled why Google seems to (at least sometimes) do it even when I'm logged in and have English as my preference. Just because I'm in Denmark doesn't mean I want the Google Books interface to override my settings and become Danish! It'd also be nicer if more sites supported changing languages (in any direction) without logging in. If it's possible to do on Blogger or MySpace, for example, I have no idea how.
- mootothemax 15y ago
  I'm baffled why Google seems to (at least sometimes) do it even when I'm logged in and have English as my preference I was as well, until searching for local things like restaurants. Polish Google gives way better results than the "Google.com in English" site.
devmach 15y ago
Well, language detection "problem" frustrates me a lot, because : - Everytime i visit google i have to change language - I might be don't care and use it in german ( or some other language ) but this time the results are different than "English" Google.( Local pages that i don't care and i can't read comes first etc. ) Google should take an action in case of inconsistency. If my ip region and my browser language doesn't match, google can ask me if i want to view google in my browsers language. It costs only a few lines of js code but brings a big satisfaction.

_delirium 15y ago

I'm okay with it as the default, but I'm baffled why Google seems to (at least sometimes) do it even when I'm logged in and have English as my preference. Just because I'm in Denmark doesn't mean I want the Google Books interface to override my settings and become Danish! It'd also be nicer if more sites supported changing languages (in any direction) without logging in. If it's possible to do on Blogger or MySpace, for example, I have no idea how.

mootothemax 15y ago
I'm baffled why Google seems to (at least sometimes) do it even when I'm logged in and have English as my preference I was as well, until searching for local things like restaurants. Polish Google gives way better results than the "Google.com in English" site.

devmach 15y ago

Well, language detection "problem" frustrates me a lot, because : - Everytime i visit google i have to change language - I might be don't care and use it in german ( or some other language ) but this time the results are different than "English" Google.( Local pages that i don't care and i can't read comes first etc. ) Google should take an action in case of inconsistency. If my ip region and my browser language doesn't match, google can ask me if i want to view google in my browsers language. It costs only a few lines of js code but brings a big satisfaction.