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. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-05-18 2:35 GMT+03:00 Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com>: > Supposedly google listens: > https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en > > On Wednesday, May 17, 2017, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> > 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 <bawo...@gmail.com>: > > > >> 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.ahar...@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! > >> > > >> > -- > >> > 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 > >> > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
