Another weird bug at Google almost unknown. The language of the interface modify a lot the positionning of the results even of local declinaisons. (like google.ca, google.fr, etc).
Here a example with Google.com : http://www.google.com/search?&q=top%20challenge%20montreal%202007
My picture blog (vupar.blogspot.com) on this query got the 25e position.
But now, go to the preference and change the Interface Language to French :
Get back in the first page of results : Tadam ! Vupar.blogspot now showing in first place !
Soem countries like Switzerland or India have a lot of common language used there. Not very easy to know in which position a page are ?!?
Note: If you don't wan't to pass by the preference you can add &hl=en (english) or &hl=fr (french) at the end of the resulting URL
3 comments:
Wasn't that a feature? I did notice it a while ago and was wondering when this would come up on the table.
I'm glad you brought it. So far I use this "bug" as a way to filter content (per language, incidently) and as an "serendipity agent"...
PS: (was to hurry to press submit)
As far as I'm concern, as Google didn't fixed it yet (we are in mid-november) I rather say it's really the way Google what it to be...
Any reasons why?
I waiting for an explication from a friend of a friend at the GooglePlex !
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