Re:Google changes its search box
by stefan_ on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:15PM
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What scares me are the basic usability fails it still has. Search for a few foreign language words and it will come back with paragraphs upon paragraphs of AI output in that foreign language despite me telling Google in 15 different ways that I don't speak it, nor anything else on the Google page being in that language. How are all their products always made by and for the most narrow minded people on this planet.
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Re:Google changes its search box
by thunderfork on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:20PM
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Kysely is the name of a typescript query builder and also Finnish for "query".
Recently, it's started answering any search about Kysely with a blob of Finnish. Awesome stuff, guys, great work.
Kyselý is also a Czech word for sour. So you've also got that to look forward to.
Funnily enough, I have the exact opposite problem, where Google likes to give me results in the configured main language even when I do queries in another and actually want results in the other language.
I’ve found it quite unsettling to be served foreign language videos on YouTube automatically dubbed over by Google into English. Just mixed in with the search results.
It's quite unsettling to be served English AI-dubbed videos randomly on Youtube, where the original is another language you normally default to (Japanese) and it's happy to use in most cases. And then you go to the settings for the video to go back to the original and it tells you it is... Chinese (and no, it's really Japanese).