Feature Requests item #662176, was opened at 2003-01-04 08:26
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Gregg Tavares (greggman)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: make it region aware
Initial Comment:
It would be cool, I think, if it searched in the correct
langauge based on the user's version of Windows or IE
setting.
I'm not sure which and maybe this is not the place to
discuss it but what I mean is, if I'm running Japanese
windows, odds are 99.99% that I'd prefer searches be in
Japanese not English. Of course the user can edit
gg.xml to fix that but most users would not be able to
figure that out.
Is this a good thing do you think?
The only question is should be based on the user's
installation of Windows. (ie, Japanese windows =
Japanese based search) OR should it be based on his
IE preferences. Meaning if she's set IE to show
Japanese pages first if there is a choice then should it
search in Japanese. This also seems like for most
people it would be the desired behavior. For example a
Chinese speaking person using an English copy of
Windows probably has his browser set to show Chinese
pages first.
Unfortunately I'm not sure if google's language codes
match Windows' language codes but they appear to and
google defaults to English if you give it a nonsense code
so to make this work, the simplest way is to do edit
gg.xml so it look like this
<script><