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Re:Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected sear... by tonfa on Sunday January 16, 2011 @04:36PM (#2110315)
We don't know what the settings of his computer are (the fact that the UI is in english makes me guessing he has the "hl=en" setting). He should add "&hl=ru" to the url to make sure he is searching the russian version of Google.
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Re:Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected sear... by TomorrowMars on Sunday January 16, 2011 @05:40PM (#2110488)
That's the point of the article- there is no such problem in germanic languages and many other European languages that the google algo have been tweaked for. Search on google in english and swedish, without any URL string shenannigans, get good results for both.
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Re:Why Google is not winning in Russia - and unexpected sear... by tonfa on Thursday January 20, 2011 @03:55AM (#2123118)
That's often not the case for me (french/english), I routinely switch the hl=xx to get relevant results (I default to hl=en).
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