ignace Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Or Google is trying to tell the user something.. "Have you been baptised?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I get a few results from different languages as well when searching for dev related stuff... despite having "English results" checked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scootstah Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I never get results in another language, unless I am searching for something really obscure and only get 2-3 results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicken Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 I also found it very hard to simply navigate to a service/product on Google's website, before their entire overhaul, without having to resort to their own search engine to find the damn product/service.. I'll agree to that. I used to be able to get to things like the maps api or translate tools pretty easy from the front page. Now I mostly search for the stuff because I can't seem to find it otherwise. I've NEVER gotten a result in korean or chinese. I get japanese when I search for things like Bento and other japanese things. I get other language results occasionally, but I've never really considered it much of a problem. It's usually just a couple here or there, not pages worth. And if it does look relevant I can usually just click the translate link next to the result. I'd say for the most part though google is pretty good at showing me English results only. Google's also pretty good at showing me relevant results right away too. I'm not a privacy nut that blocks any and all attempts by a website to track/figure me out though so google has a pretty good idea of what I am interested in. For example if I search "router" google shows me pages of stuff on the computer networking device, were as bing shows a mix between network devices and the woodworking tool. I've had similar good results when searching other ambiguous terms like that. I'm sure bing would do just as well if I used it and gave it a chance to figure me out but google already knows all that so it generally works better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Google may have won this round, but others picked Bing web search results over Google nearly 2 to 1 in blind comparison tests.* Show me the proof? I don't believe you M$. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted September 8, 2012 Share Posted September 8, 2012 It's usually just a couple here or there, not pages worth. I never said it were entire pages. Just a few here or there. It does not really bother me although I think they can easily and should filter them out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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