Hoi,
It works indeed best for logged in users. However the statistics show that
the main public for particular languages is not where you expect them to be.
It is good to be generous in the number of languages that we show in my
opinion.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 4 June 2010 11:18, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
When you look where what languages have their biggest audience, you will
be
surprised. The notion of most likely languages is
either based on such
statistics or it is only guess work. The best performance is when people
can
choose the languages involved.
However, 'letting people choose' is only workable for regular,
logged-in users. If we're talking about anonymous users, guessing is
more or less our only option. It's not an easy task, but luckily we
can choose to have 3 or 4 languages rather than just one, so there is
some margin of error. Still - geolocation usually doesn't go beyond
country level, and for some countries we already have quite a number
of languages. Usually one or a few languages will be enough to give
everyone something they can speak well, but if we show only those,
regional languages would not be shown to anyone at all, and thus miss
out on a good advertising location.
--
André Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
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