Black Fox wrote:
It's realy horrible for the user such a thing. It's already a nightmare with google sometimes -- If google.com want to be displayed in french because it's my default language in the browser, OK but when he begin to auto-limit my search to "french pages" he change what i expect --- so please not this on the wikipedia.
What google does is actually even more annoying than this. When I travel in Europe, Google redirects me to the site they think I want based on my *geographical location*. So when I'm in Germany, they assume I speak German, when I'm in Italy, they assume I speak Italian, etc.
This is disconcerting and unpleasant for me.
Better by far would be for them to combine information from my default browser language and my location to offer me options that are likely to make the most sense.
If I'm in Germany, but with English as my default language, why not offer me a German/English hybrid page?
Instead of a link to *either* 'Images' *or* 'Bilder' they could say: "Hmm, his browser wants English, but he's in Germany, so let's give him: 'Images (Bilder)'.
In our case, we don't have (to my knowledge) the technical ability to make a good guess of where people are in a timely fashion. So we can just do what Magnus suggested: give a page that highlights alternatives based on people's default browser language.
I agree completely that serving different *content* based on anything automatic is a bad idea. It can be extremely annoying.
--Jimbo