Yeah... but I would love to hear actual experiences of actual Chinese speakers. (Although I certainly do appreciate other relevant replies, like yours.)
For every search engine, and often for every search engine _user_ the actual results are likely different.
If it works well for Chinese speakers—good to know.
If it doesn't, then I'd like to know it, and to think whether we can do anything about it in our software.
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2017-05-18 2:35 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com:
Supposedly google listens: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Quite possible, but does it actually happen?
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2017-05-17 23:25 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com:
I think the point of all those <link rel=alternate hreflang=foo> tags
was
so google linked to right variant, but i am unsure.
-- brian
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Hi,
I wondered about some things around the Chinese variant conversion:
- When a person uses a search engine, do the links in the results
point
directly to one of the variants? That is, does it point to https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/Article_name , etc., or simply to zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_name ? I guess that among
Chinese-speaking
people Google is not necessarily as ubiquitous as elsewhere, so there
is
probably a separate answer for each search engine.
- If for any search engine the answer above is "yes", does anybody
have
an
idea about how does that search engine guess the preferred variant?
Usage
of simplified / traditional characters in the search query?
Geolocation?
Preferred language settings in the browser ("Accept-Language")?
Preferences
in the search engine itself? A combination of all of the above?
Something
else?
- Does any of the search engine show direct links to country-based
variants
- zh-cn, zh-hk, zh-tw, zh-sg, zh-mo? Or to the more generic zh-hans
and
zh-hant?
- For users who didn't log in, is the variant selection remembered in
a
cookie or in localStorage?
I cannot easily test any of these things myself, because I don't speak Chinese, I'm not familiar with Chinese search engines, and I don't
live
in
a Chinese-speaking country (and geolocation matters). But since I care about language, I'm very curious about this.
Thanks!
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