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by Fiahil 1559 days ago
I live in France, speak French, but work with English as my primary language.

So, I had to make the same settings change, otherwise google would keep putting French searches before English ones (despite the fact that I searched with English keywords).

I don't remember how I found this, but it might something along the lines of "I'm really annoyed today, let's fix this NOW". When you speak 2 languages or more, and they don't match with your location, Google, Microsoft, and most other big tech companies go completely nuts. So, you get used to fiddling with languages settings.

I have no idea how we got there, but my guess is that most Google engineers are either : completely ignorant of internationalization issues, don't care, or don't speak more than one language.

PS: Speech recognition, autocorrect, and mobile keyboards : Same problem.

PS2: Apple get it right most of the time.
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S0und 1559 days ago
This is why I think Google assistant is absolutely useless. Try to call someone who has a name in X language on a device that is set to English. You just can't. I love Big tech circle jerk about diversity, that somehow stops at skincolor, gender and sexual identity. You happens to bilingual? Sorry our cutting edge AI can't handle that.

Google all I want is a command for assistant, for example "OK Google, Call *in german/dutch/French/etc* <after this command everything will be interpreted on the given language, for the rest of the voice input>. See, it's not that hard.

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Fiahil 1559 days ago
> Google all I want is a command for assistant, for example "OK Google, Call in german/dutch/French/etc <after this command everything will be interpreted on the given language, for the rest of the voice input>. See, it's not that hard.

I had the exact same idea, it seems Google really lack good product design.

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tonfa 1559 days ago
> I have no idea how we got there, but my guess is that most Google engineers are either : completely ignorant of internationalization issues, don't care, or don't speak more than one language.

Funny, if anything probably 80%+ of the eng folks in Europe for big tech speak more than one language (everyone who's not from UK or Ireland).

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