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SyrupThinker | 2 months ago

FWIW the decision-makers at Google (and some other companies) should just learn what the Accept-Language header is for.

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shadowgovt|2 months ago

They know. They also know that almost no regular users know what it is, what it's for, or how to configure it. The search fails where the accept-language was wrong far dominate the numbers over the search fails where the accept-language was ignored.

SyrupThinker|2 months ago

> The search fails where the accept-language was wrong far dominate the numbers over the search fails where the accept-language was ignored.

Wouldn't this imply that "regular" users are running their OS and/or browser in a language they do not want to use for search? This seems unlikely to me, or is there some systematic reason that results in this being the case?