On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59...@care2.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Using Google search always returns my results in Spanish because Google has > figured out that my ISP is in a Spanish speaking country. But I want the > results in US Eglish and always have to do an extra mouse click on > 'Google.com in English' > > Apparently Google does not record that I always click on that and adjusts > the default language. > > Anybody know how to set the default language for search?
There has been a recent discussion of this over on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2673898 Well, OK, looks like the discussion is mostly about personalization of search results, but geo-location and guessing languages does fit into that. Searching for that page for the word English seems to indicate that it might be a bug. Also, it looks like the reason Google (and other websites) do this is because there seems to be a large number of browsers out there with Accept-Language set incorrectly, so anything that says English is just tossed out and whatever left is used (and if there is nothing left, geo-locate). I thought at one point en-gb would work, but some recent testing I tried failed (but it was only about 10seconds worth of testing). mrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTim4m2jf28mzMuqSGPus6eriHY=e...@mail.gmail.com
