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Not just that, I also constantly get German Wikipedia articles as top result when my browser and OS are set to English. If it were only the UI, that would be be

by lucb1e 4y ago

Not just that, I also constantly get German Wikipedia articles as top result when my browser and OS are set to English. If it were only the UI, that would be better because I know the buttons by heart already (not a given for every user, of course). I've always wondered what I'm supposed to do when on holiday in a country with a different script that I can't make heads or tails of. I'll have to practice my japanese or amharic then I guess? The other extreme is DDG which will try to find English results for a query that very clearly uses Dutch words, matching pages that don't have those words on them rather than bringing up the Dutch page that contains all of the keywords.

fsflover 4y ago
With DDG, you can switch the location slider on, and it seems to use your IP then.
- lucb1e 4y ago
  Yep, so I have to tap the language menu, tap the search field, type ger, select Germany... whereas it could just do keyword matching like I ask it to
  - fsflover 4y ago
    You can preselect all these by using the correct link (look at the help section).
andreareina 4y ago
I believe if you're logged in it will miraculously know what language to use. Mind you I don't actually know because I stay logged out
- Akronymus 4y ago
  It doesn't. For me, it still puts the local language results first.