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Posted Sep 7, 2017 17:23 UTC (Thu) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
Parent article: The challenges of supporting geolocation in WordPress

As long as they don’t pull a Google (no, just because I’m on vacation in Bruxelles I don’t suddenly speak French, want a french UI or search results, TYVM)…

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Posted Sep 7, 2017 17:56 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (1 responses)

Come on, FOSDEM doesn't count as vacation.

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Posted Sep 8, 2017 13:24 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

True… but the yearly visit to Passion Chocolat at Grote Zavel does ☺

Was I *that* obvious?

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Posted Sep 8, 2017 0:02 UTC (Fri) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link] (1 responses)

Google has a "no country redirect" mode (https://www.google.com/ncr), which might be what you want.

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Posted Sep 8, 2017 13:20 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

Hm, interesting.

How do I use that instead of http://www.google.com/search?q="$*" ?

I normally call search engines by shell functions that just run lynx with the appropriate options, that’s why.

(But see my other post for why this was not the intention of mentioning Google, even if it helps.)

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Posted Sep 8, 2017 7:08 UTC (Fri) by niner (guest, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

On https://duckduckgo.com/ it's a single click to turn on or off localized results and two to pick the country you're interested in.
I often wonder, why duckduckgo is not much more popular among LWN readers.

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Posted Sep 8, 2017 13:22 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link]

I only chose Google as an example of how *not* to do it.

In fact, I *do* use DuckDuckGo (have, ever since they stopped not working with lynx, so kinda early adopter; I even have !wtf and !mbsdman registered with them) and Benefind for searches first, and only resort to Google if they don’t find anything. Please do not assume, even if your intentions are laudable.

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Posted Sep 8, 2017 10:06 UTC (Fri) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

Loads and loads of sites behave like this. It's not fun to work in a big company where all internet traffic is routed through one non-English country.

There's a huge number of sites which by default are unreadable, default to the wrong currency, etc. It's often very difficult to figure out how to switch languages. Changing the currency is sometimes crazy difficult (hunt for some settings link).

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Posted Sep 10, 2017 11:06 UTC (Sun) by tedd (subscriber, #74183) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe Google picked up on your use of the native spelling of Brussels. ;)

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Posted Sep 15, 2017 18:11 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Which native spelling? :-)

Cheers,
Wol