The world needs more search engines

Re:The world needs more search engines by Aeolun on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:17PM (#21676877)

I second the need to do some form of detection for language. My browser tells webpages I want results in english (Accept-language header), and this can be safely used to detect what is most appropriate initially.

If not that, then at least IP, considering I’m sitting in the US.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by kwhitefoot on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:55PM (#21677460)

No, please do not use IP addresses to infer UI language preference. Google does that and it a right royal pain in the arse. Every time I visit a different country Blogger's log in page is in a different language ignoring the carefully specified browser settings giving me Polish when I am in Poland, Norwegian when I am in Norway, etc.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by __ka on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:20PM (#21676899)

Yep, the The Accept-language header seems the most reasonable to go for. Will try to get it out as early as possible.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by FabHK on Sunday December 01, 2019 @01:55PM (#21677134)

Please not IP. I hate it when stupid sites insist on switching to Latvian or whatever because that's my current VPN endpoint.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by lamkhanhsong on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @12:06PM (#21694188)

Thank you for your feedback. We have just implemented auto language detection for the UI based on your browser language.

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