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		<title>Google Multilingual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google has not taken into account that in this mobile age, people are travelling the world with their laptops or other portable devices and surfing the net. This means that people are often browsing the internet in a country where they are not a speaker of the native language. Then why does Google assume that people will want to view their website in that language? ]]></description>
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Does anyone know somebody in deep<br />
inside Google that could point me to the right people?<br />
I want to point something out to Google.
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<p>Google has not taken into account that in this mobile age, people are<br />
travelling the world with their laptops or other portable devices and<br />
surfing the net. This means that people are often browsing the internet in a country where they are not a speaker of the native language. Then why does Google assume that people will want to view their website in that language?</p>
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Google Account Screen Shot
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<p>For example, I am frequently in Germany and using Google. I am constantly faced<br />
with this very annoying feature of Google. Google assumes, that because I am in Germany, that I therefore want Google<br />
in German, rather than looking at my browser language preferences,<br />
which gives a list of preferred languages. For a company that prides themselves on delivering what the user wants,<br />
how can they possibly get this so wrong? Even if I manually change the<br />
language setting to what it should be (English), Google still serves up the wrong<br />
language as shown in the accompanying image.</p>
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Hey, even I can program a bit of simple code to look a browser language<br />
preferences and choose the right language that user wants. On the following website that I built, <a href="http://galerie10.at" title="Vienna Gallery showing, Fuchs, Hausner, Brauer, Gric, Sage" target="_blank">galerie10.at</a>, the website detects the visitor&#39;s language preference from the browser. It then compares this against a list of languages available on the website. It will cycle through the list of the visitor&#39;s preferred languages until it finds a match. If it does not, then presents the visitor with the default.
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Maybe Google can do what I did, and use their own search engine and research the following term &quot;detect browser language preference&quot;.</p>
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