Language mistake

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Language mistake

Will Google correct this?

aapbe

11:39 am on Aug 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Forgive me if this is a stupid question. I put a Dutch version of website online last week. I forgot to change the <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="EN"> to ="NL". I corrected this about 2 days later. Now I was looking for my translated site on the Dutch language pages of Google.be and Google.nl.
I didn't find my site anywhere. However, when looking in the "normal" pages I do find it indexed on August, 2. Does this mean that my Dutch pages, just because I forgot the language tag never won't show up in queries for Dutch language pages?
What worries me is that the pages are indexed on August 2, and I do believe that on that day I already had changed the language tag to "NL".

g1smd

6:04 pm on Aug 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

While the Content-Language meta tag is a valid meta tag I do believe that translation tools use it and that Google does not.

For Google I would also change your opening <html> tag to be <html lang="nl"> instead (make sure all in lower case too).

aapbe

6:55 pm on Aug 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks, I found this out too yesterday, and for reference I checked w3c. I hope that the pages will show up soon when people search for Dutch language pages.