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This is a huge overreaction.

• bowlofpetunias 13y ago
  Did I mention changing features (omitting some, changing the navigation to others) and search results (Stack Overflow tends not to show up in local searches in language xyz) ? And all this with no language/region switch in sight? Except the one inside the account settings, which Google then randomly ignores? What would you consider to be the appropriate reaction to such a user experience? Or just imagine clicking on the link at the top of this threat and ending up on a page called "Onze geschiedenis tot in detail", which contains a truly awful, low quality and barely readable Dutch "translation" with no obvious way of accessing the content people are actually discussing here. Would this put you in a good mood?
  • mercuryrising 13y ago
    Delete your google cookies then resign in.
  • reginaldo 13y ago
    Most Google services accept and honor a "hl" URL parameter. So it would be http://www.google.com/about/company/history/?hl=en http://www.google.com/about/company/history/?hl=en for English, and hl=nl for Dutch (not that you want it). No cookie cleaning is needed :)
• deleted 13y ago
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• taopao 13y ago
  And it's comment #1!
• randomhunt 13y ago
  Not really, I feel exactly the same and as it's the top comment I guess a lot of other people do as well. I know it certainly comes up regularly both in the office (people traveling get very annoyed when Google decides they should fluently read the language of the country they're working in for that week) and among friends as a source of constant frustration. Google isn't alone in doing it either, Bing has slavishly copied this absolute idiotic stupidity although they aren't anywhere near as insulting about it as Google _yet_ (e.g. where Google, Wordpress, Youtube etc. show it in the language it geolocates you to rather than either your browser's language or your profile's language)