Google should really change their brain-dead IP-based language selection. Almost 2 yrs now.

See http://twitter.com/oriste/status/8185412677

Thanks for your suggestions, but I’m afraid it’s not as simple as that. I wasn’t talking about the Google Search page (which should in my opinion also respect HTTP headers as a global user language preference, that’s what it’s there for, without necessitating to set preferences for each individual site), but about Google, the company, including all the other Google properties, like Friend Connect, Blogspot, etc. The ACCEPT-LANGUAGE HTTP header is there for a purpose: user convenience. Google ignores it. I would appreciate it if they didn’t.

Starting with the latter, if you need google.com, instead of google.gr, when you are in Greece:

a. type google.com
b. you’ll get to google.gr
c. See that link on the right under the search box? Go to google.com? Click on it.

Voila! Provided your browser accepts cookies, the preference will be remembered. No more redirection to google.gr, when you type google.com.

Hint: It’s google.com/ncr that takes you to google.com

As for the interface language settings; just get to google preferences and set it there.

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