Trying to guess the user's language is ok as long as the user has some way to override your guess.
DDG does the same, and adds a switcher so you can change between your local language and English. That's great, because depending on the search you want, it may be better done on either language.
The Microsoft site uses your language header on their .Net documentation. That is very bad because no matter what your browser says you prefer, the only document with any reasonable quality is the English one. There is a language switcher that takes some 20 seconds to use (hurrah, javascript!) and they don't bother to save for your next access. That makes the site barely usable instead of completely useless.
What I don't get is, with the amount of information Google makes sure to collect about me, how does it not know that I prefer results not on my main language and verbatim search terms? That is even after I tell them that on their settings.
> DDG does the same, and adds a switcher so you can change between your local language and English. That's great, because depending on the search you want, it may be better done on either language.
DDG also has local and global search that you can switch, without switching the language of the site (so if I do a search with !ddgde I get German results but the DDG interface is still in English). Kagi does the same thing with !reg (for regional)
DDG does the same, and adds a switcher so you can change between your local language and English. That's great, because depending on the search you want, it may be better done on either language.
The Microsoft site uses your language header on their .Net documentation. That is very bad because no matter what your browser says you prefer, the only document with any reasonable quality is the English one. There is a language switcher that takes some 20 seconds to use (hurrah, javascript!) and they don't bother to save for your next access. That makes the site barely usable instead of completely useless.
What I don't get is, with the amount of information Google makes sure to collect about me, how does it not know that I prefer results not on my main language and verbatim search terms? That is even after I tell them that on their settings.