Supposedly google listens: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Quite possible, but does it actually happen? > > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > 2017-05-17 23:25 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff <[email protected]>: > >> 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 <[email protected] > >> 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! >> > >> > -- >> > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי >> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com >> > “We're living in pieces, >> > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikitech-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
