lucy24 - 11:10 am on Oct 24, 2012 (gmt 0)

I doubt they just started ignoring it yesterday...

It definitely sheds light on why "search for pages in {some language}" has always been so utterly useless. They're not even looking at one possible source of information.

And then there's the counterpart, where you search for a non-English word and they helpfully say "tip: limit your search to pages in English". (Helloo? If I'd wanted English pages, I'd have said so. Or padded the search with something like "What does vixaxn mean?")

I detoured here for some random searches. Even if you search for a Greek word in Greek pages-- which should be a no-brainer-- you still get some pages that are primarily in English.

:: further digression to ponder the fact that Google Books thinks Dene = Inuktitut ::

It's that Microsoft thing. "We don't have to follow no steenking standards. We'll make up our own proprietary formulas and everyone else can jolly well accommodate themselves to us because we're the biggest."