Olivaro2k
06-15-2008, 06:27 PM
With this thread, I hope to get the attention of Google to wide complaints about country specific search results which just get worse with time:
1.) If I type in Google.com I do not want Google.es just because I am in Spain otherwise I would have typed in Google.es .
2.) If I tell Google to search the entire web without country or language preferences in its search it still shows me Spanish results first or respectively those of any other country I happen to be in at the time! Why giving people the option to choose if it hardly matters anyways.
3.) When looking for something like the Wikipedia article about the author Ernest Hemingway, I would expect the English wikipedia article to be the most popular and show up first but then again I get either the Spanish first or an automatic translation of the English article into Spanish.
!!! I am sorry, but I think I know much better what I want to look for and in what language than Google's search engine does!!!
At least consider my manual configuration!
4.) The option to search for results in a specific language is a nice tool (if it works, see above) but together with the above mentioned problem, it does not serve to search in let's say two, three or more but limited langugaes only which would be a nice gimmick for multilingual people. Also, this might help to overcome the problems mentioned earlier.
1.) If I type in Google.com I do not want Google.es just because I am in Spain otherwise I would have typed in Google.es .
2.) If I tell Google to search the entire web without country or language preferences in its search it still shows me Spanish results first or respectively those of any other country I happen to be in at the time! Why giving people the option to choose if it hardly matters anyways.
3.) When looking for something like the Wikipedia article about the author Ernest Hemingway, I would expect the English wikipedia article to be the most popular and show up first but then again I get either the Spanish first or an automatic translation of the English article into Spanish.
!!! I am sorry, but I think I know much better what I want to look for and in what language than Google's search engine does!!!
At least consider my manual configuration!
4.) The option to search for results in a specific language is a nice tool (if it works, see above) but together with the above mentioned problem, it does not serve to search in let's say two, three or more but limited langugaes only which would be a nice gimmick for multilingual people. Also, this might help to overcome the problems mentioned earlier.