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Actually, this problem also exists for native speakers in their own countries. I'm a German in Germany, yet when I'm searching for technical terms, in the overw

Actually, this problem also exists for native speakers in their own countries. I'm a German in Germany, yet when I'm searching for technical terms, in the overwhelming majority I want English results because they are better. (The German results are often just blog posts regurgitating what somebody else wrote in English.) It used to be that I could use www.google.de for German searches, and www.google.com/ncr for English searches, but that does not (reliably) work anymore. I now grudgingly type www.google.com/?hl=en in the address bar more often than not.

printer 14y ago
On Google Search: Options -> Search settings -> Languages There you can change the language(s) of your search result. I think you can mark up to 10 languages.
- aristidb 14y ago
  Except it still gives me mostly bad German results for technical queries if I don't completely remove German there.
- DasIch 14y ago
  Google provides those settings but it seems to randomly ignore them or at least I can't discern a pattern.
  - przemoc 14y ago
    It's not randomly. In work I use Iceweasel for private gmail (and Chrome for company gmail), where I have set Results per page to 100 and chose to Never show Instant results long time ago. It simply does not work! I go to google.com, start typing and Google starts showing me some instant results and hitting Enter gives me only 10 results per page. (The same settings are respected for non-private gmail in Chrome, though.)
Nicole060 14y ago
Exactly. When it comes to the world of programming and IT, English is the lingua franca. I'm French but spend 99% of my time on the English-speaking web. The French edition of Google is only good at pissing me off.
gingerjoos 14y ago
To get the U.S. results (for eg.), run the query on google.com (google.com/ncr) and then append "&gl=us" to the URL. For eg. compare : https://www.google.com/search?q=salem&gl=us https://www.google.com/search?q=salem&gl=us https://www.google.co.in/?q=salem&gl=in https://www.google.co.in/?q=salem&gl=in See also : http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/how-to-see-google-results-of-another-country-or-city-from-your-location/1206/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/how-to-see-google-resu...
Tichy 14y ago
And I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. The upside is that if I want German results, I can just go to Google - no annoying configurations, just DDG for English and Google for German. Still, I really resent this behavior by Google.
- Semaphor 14y ago
  Just had yet another try at switching to DDG. The results are so extremely inferior to Google that I switched back after I had to use !g for 5 of 5 searches to find what I want.

printer 14y ago

On Google Search: Options -> Search settings -> Languages There you can change the language(s) of your search result. I think you can mark up to 10 languages.

aristidb 14y ago
Except it still gives me mostly bad German results for technical queries if I don't completely remove German there.
DasIch 14y ago
Google provides those settings but it seems to randomly ignore them or at least I can't discern a pattern.
- przemoc 14y ago
  It's not randomly. In work I use Iceweasel for private gmail (and Chrome for company gmail), where I have set Results per page to 100 and chose to Never show Instant results long time ago. It simply does not work! I go to google.com, start typing and Google starts showing me some instant results and hitting Enter gives me only 10 results per page. (The same settings are respected for non-private gmail in Chrome, though.)

Nicole060 14y ago

Exactly. When it comes to the world of programming and IT, English is the lingua franca. I'm French but spend 99% of my time on the English-speaking web. The French edition of Google is only good at pissing me off.

gingerjoos 14y ago

To get the U.S. results (for eg.), run the query on google.com (google.com/ncr) and then append "&gl=us" to the URL. For eg. compare : https://www.google.com/search?q=salem&gl=us https://www.google.com/search?q=salem&gl=us https://www.google.co.in/?q=salem&gl=in https://www.google.co.in/?q=salem&gl=in See also : http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/how-to-see-google-results-of-another-country-or-city-from-your-location/1206/ http://www.labnol.org/internet/search/how-to-see-google-resu...

Tichy 14y ago

And I use DuckDuckGo instead of Google. The upside is that if I want German results, I can just go to Google - no annoying configurations, just DDG for English and Google for German. Still, I really resent this behavior by Google.

Semaphor 14y ago
Just had yet another try at switching to DDG. The results are so extremely inferior to Google that I switched back after I had to use !g for 5 of 5 searches to find what I want.