[leonheld]

While others have expressed sentiments about YouTube and Google, let me tell you what I really hate - translated reddit posts.

They're polluting search results and it's the ultimate disrespect against multi-lingual users... it's made my life hell when trying to find localized information (for example, in Portuguese), when my computer is set to Portuguese but I'm searching in English.

[vladkens]

Honestly, I don't even know what you're talking about – I don't have anything like that. Maybe it can be changed in the settings?

[sltkr]

It's in the Google index, not on Reddit itself. For example: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+inurl:?tl=...

...will show you posts that have been translated into Italian, most of which were originally in English or a different language.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/1k2fotl/welcome_to_...

And of course in this case I explicitly searched for that, but the point is that if Google thinks Italian is your primary language, it will surface those results automatically, even when you might prefer the English original.

Probably this is caused by Reddit offering these pages to Google, rather than Google deciding to send you to a different URL on its own accord, but it's still annoying from an end user perspective.