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(a)gmail.com>om>:
Supposedly google listens:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)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(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 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(a)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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