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Re: hreflang

From: Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:27:29 +0100
Message-ID: <43E4D5F1.1070802@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
To: Tina Holmboe <tina@greytower.net>
CC: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>, www-html@w3.org, LKAuDuong@Yahoo.Com

What happens if you try Google.Co.Uk rather than Google.Com ?
I found in Viet Nam that Google.Com would present me with
Vietnamese Google whilst Google.Co.Uk was perfectly happy
to converse with me in English ...

Philip Taylor
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Tina Holmboe wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 04:48:27PM +0100, Laurens Holst wrote:
> 
> 
>>>I disagree. Accept-Language would be one of the most important 
>>>features of an user agent *if* it contained real information. 
>>
>>It does. It is frequently used by websites such as hotmail, Google, 
>>mozilla-europe.org and other large sites to present the user with a 
> 
> 
>   In the case of Google, this is sadly not true. I have all my
>   browsers set to prefer English, and never get anything but
>   google.se
> 
>   Alas.
> 
Received on Saturday, 4 February 2006 16:27:41 GMT
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