Google.es now fully functional

Previously redirected to google.com

[WebWalla]

Spain's own Google now seems to be fully functional, with 3 search options: to search the web, to search only pages in Spanish, and to search only pages from Spain (presumably geo-targeting based on domain server IP address)

Previously google.es redirected to google.com, then to a new Google Spain web in English, and now it gives Spanish as the default language and includes the options mentioned above.

[Crush]

Yeah, noticed that this morning. Just got into the office in Barcelona yesterday and it redirected to .es

Cool!

[misciab]

Lucky you, Crush, I love Barcelona.
As usual Google is the best: search in Galego, Euskara and Català.

Misciab

[creative craig]

Good news for our company, we specialise in Catalonia (Catalan) :)

Craig

[WebWalla]

AdWords for Spain also now launched, with Larry and Sergey making a personal appearance at the Madrid office :)

Hopefully AdSense for Spanish sites will follow soon.

[Rumbas]

Congrats spanish speaking members ;)

>Hopefully AdSense for Spanish sites will follow soon.

Hopefully Adsense will launch in all countries where they have local language Adwords!

[davidgimeno]

I was already accessing Google in Catalan for few years ago. And it was possible in Galician, Spanish or Basque, too.

The only difference now is when I try to access to google.com, it redirects me to google.es in Spanish instead of google.com/intl/ca/ in Catalan. Why? Because they think everybody who lives in Spain shall speak Spanish... and this is untrue (Catalan, Basque, Galician, Aranes and Asturian are widely spoken languages other than Spanish).

I know I can select my interface language with cookies, but till now I don't need to do so, why now?

There would be a quite simple solution: they should look at the browser's language preferences and don't presume which language I must or mustn't understand.

[Rumbas]

Hi David - welcom to WebmasterWorld :)

>they should look at the browser's language preferences and don't presume

Agreed! We had a very good discussion with Matt in London about handling language preferences and things like that. Their serps are often way off with different language settings searching non-english.

Let's hope they will work on it ;)