I have blogged about this several times. Google are one of the worst offenders. I'm not sure if it is insular non-travelled US developers with a deep love of IP-to-geolication databases, or an anally retentive legal department, but it really sucks as a user experience.
From an advertising perspective this is a major market that is being overlooked, because guess what, I don't look at ads that much, but you can bet your bottom advertising dollar that I'm definitely not going to read it in a language that isn't my mother tongue.
IP address != language preference
It is about time that developers got that through their thick skulls.
Finally, over here in Europe we can live in whichever EU country we want to. This means that we can move countries easily. I've already been in four of them. I don't think I'm an edge case by any means. People migrate.
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I have blogged about this several times. Google are one of the worst offenders. I'm not sure if it is insular non-travelled US developers with a deep love of IP-to-geolication databases, or an anally retentive legal department, but it really sucks as a user experience.
From an advertising perspective this is a major market that is being overlooked, because guess what, I don't look at ads that much, but you can bet your bottom advertising dollar that I'm definitely not going to read it in a language that isn't my mother tongue.
IP address != language preference
It is about time that developers got that through their thick skulls.
Finally, over here in Europe we can live in whichever EU country we want to. This means that we can move countries easily. I've already been in four of them. I don't think I'm an edge case by any means. People migrate.