[Bug-gnuzilla] Metager and Language Re: Default Search Engine

[Jens Korte]

Metager removed the feature of providing results in the language the
browser prefers as language. The quality of the results in other
languages except german is not so good. Many german users get a firefox
with language en if they install a linux distribution and the feature
didn't make the users happy.

I guess it is a kind of chicken-and-egg problem. But MG works on the
feature of supporting other languages.

Maybe you can include MG as a search engine especially
for german-speaking people.

Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:10:50 +0100
schrieb Jens Korte <address@hidden>:

> Am Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:36:26 +0100
> schrieb Marco van Hulten <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Je 28 jan 13:31 skribis Narcis:
> > > MetaGer still has the problem of prioritizing german results.
> > > 
> > > [examples]
> > > 
> > > This is not useful for me to set many people MetaGer as default
> > > search engine.
> >
> > Here I also see an issue.
> > 
> > https://metager.de/    returns German results.
> > https://metager.de/en/ returns English results.
> > https://metager.de/es/ returns German results.
> > https://metager.de/nl/ does not exist.
> > https://metager.de/eo/ does not exist.
> > https://metager.de/no/ does not exist.
> > 
> > The main issue here is that the Spanish website returns links to
> > German websites, instead of Spanish.
> 
> I wrote an issue at Metager [1] and linked to the mail archive of this
> thread. Though the mail development is in english, I guess it is no
> problem to report issues in english.
> 
> If someone is interested in translating Metager write an issue in the
> gitlab or write a mail to address@hidden . I am just a user, I
> can't say anything about the priorities of the project.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Another issue (be it a bug or missing feature) is that, at least in
> > IceCat, the language setting is ignored.
> 
> I reported it at 
> https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer/issues/666
> 
> Jens
> 
> > 
> > —Marco
> 
> [1] https://gitlab.metager3.de/open-source/MetaGer/issues/665
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