Re: [OT] Google search default lang.

[Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org>]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 01:14:11PM -0300, Leandro DUTRA wrote:
> 2011/6/19 Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>:
> >
> > Google -> language tools (under "advanced") -> preferences
> 
> Even better, set the system???s or the user account???s language.

Oh, if only it were that simple...  Most internationalized websites
(including Google) seem to have completely given up on Accept-Language
headers[1] in favor of relying on IP geolocation.  I'm an American expat
living in Sweden, so my browsers are set to send

Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv-se

Despite this, every time my Google cookie expires, it sends me the
Swedish version of the page.  Setting language preferences on the client
side does *not* work[2] for Google or most other sites.


[1] apparently on the theory that "most users don't know how to set
their preferred lanuages, so the header specifies the browser's default
instead of the user's preference"

[2] even though it damn well should

-- 
Dave Sherohman