- From: John Yunker <jyunker@bytelevel.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:57:56 -0500
- To: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q? "Fran=E7ois_Yergeau" ?= <francois@yergeau.com>, Yves Savourel <ysavourel@translate.com>, John Yunker <yunkerjohn@yahoo.com>, GEO <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
Tex, I believe that Google is using both content negotiation plus some method of IP address identification. I know of company that has commercialized the service, though I'm not sure how Google goes about doing it. Here's the company: http://www.verifia.com On Dec 19, 2003, at 3:40 PM, Tex Texin wrote: > > John, > > Good comments. > > 1) On deep linking from search engines and elsewhere, I would think > that > most of the time the search would result in a page that was in one of > the languages of the user. I know it is not always true, but I wouldn't > think using lang. negotiation would be an improvement most of the time > for a deep link. > > But that's a good use case for language selection being available on > every page and for it not to return to the top of the tree, but a > reasonable counterpart of the page the language switch is being made > from. > > 2) I don't know the answer to the question on htaccess for changing > language directories rather than pages. > I had the same question. > > 3) Google must use cookies to remember information from past searches, > especially your location and things like that. Too many of the searches > I do show up local companies and reasonable matches, even when I don't > provide that many keywords. You would think a search for a chinese > restaurant name would give you places randomly around the world rather > than American or Massachusetts places being most highly ranked. (Of > course the dominance of american internet helps there.) I guess I'll > have to do a few searches, then delete all my cookies to test it. > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Tex Texin cell: +1 781 789 1898 mailto:Tex@XenCraft.com > Xen Master http://www.i18nGuy.com > > XenCraft http://www.XenCraft.com > Making e-Business Work Around the World > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > John Yunker Byte Level Research jyunker@bytelevel.com +1 (617) 388-6824
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