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Romeo - 9:45 pm on Oct 30, 2002 (gmt 0)


> Does anyone know how Google classifies the language of a page?
> Is it on percentage bodytext? title? majority of language of inbound linked sites?

A short test with different Google "advanced search" language selections led me to the conclusion that Google primarily seems to follow my
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="xx">
tag, and consequently doesn't show a multilingual page with both Xx and Yy text, when language "yy" is selected in the "advanced search" but the page's meta tag said "xx".

Regards,
R.


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