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Comment by _trampeltier | Hacker News Reader

At the same time, Google think allways I'm in germany on work, because our company has just one large internet connection for all company users from the whole world. And google does not even let me change the country.

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Googles forced country localization is IMBECILICLY STUPID.

I am currently in a foreign country. My English OS laptop with English browser has been logging in to gmail in English for years, and I ask Google search to show results in English for 5 years and EVERY TIME it tries to show the local language. Going to google.com is IGNORED, why??

Google engineers are paid $$$$$$$$ of dollars to implement THE MOST STUPID CODE I HAVE EVER HAD TO DEAL WITH AAAAARGH.

Same for me, worse, I search for something in English and it shows me results in the local language. And if you think that SEO destroyed the English internet, try it in Spanish, there is literally nothing there, pure FB and Pinterest.

Funny, I've been using google since forever in an spanish speaker country and it always correctly (when logged in) shows me results in english (I have it set it to english).

I think the frustration is mainly that you have to be logged in and set some Google-specific setting in their application. A well-behaved HTTP server should simply honor the value of the Accept-Language request header regardless of what IP address a request is coming from.

Yes that’s annoying. In the past you could use a country’s domain to choose Google’s localization but it’s not the case anymore. And their “ncr” (no country redirect) feature doesn’t work anymore.

It’s one of the main reason I’ve been using Duckduckgo more and more.

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