Re: Re: Language Guess from IP

Especially nice for mine where you can choose between Dutch and French, the wrong guess won't be appreciated ;-)

Indeed. I was in Switzerland this summer, and google kept giving me www.google.ch, in German. I was connecting in the French speaking part of the country, but that didn't have any effect, of course - very annoying.

Guessing may be OK for some things, but it's better if you let the user select...

Michael

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Re^3: Language Guess from IP by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Dec 05, 2002 at 19:56 UTC
Actually, Google goes by the Accept-Language header; for me it seems to do so, anyway. My browser is set to ask for English pages, and consequently I stay on google.com, even though I'm in Germany, where you're usually redirected to google.de. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Language Guess from IP by mpeppler (Vicar) on Dec 05, 2002 at 21:10 UTC
Actually, Google goes by the Accept-Language header Hmmm... didn't seem to work for me. I was using my linux laptop, dialing in to ATT Global in Geneva. The language setting for my Mozilla config on the laptop is English. Oh well... Michael	[reply]