Re: [tlug] Re: [OT] Japanese Language Podcasts

[tlug@example.com]

On Thursday 03 January 2008 13:23:48 Josh Glover wrote:
> On 31/12/2007, Edward Wright <edw@example.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:37:10PM +0900, Lyle H Saxon wrote:
> > > Go to the Japanese Google site (NOT the English Google site) and do a
> >
> > Does that actually make a difference? Just for fun, I tried both .com and
> > .co.jp and both returned about the same number of hits for "日本語 podcast".
>
> If you go to google.co.jp (and select the "Google in 日本語" link, if it
> does not present the Japanese interface by default), there is an
> option to limit your search to just Japanese pages ("日本語のページを検索 ").
> That is the only difference I know of between Japanese and English
> search modes.

I think the difference that the original poster was referring to is the 
ordering of the search results, which is definitely affected by the "hl" GET 
parameter of the search.  Since the query was Japanese anyway in the case in 
question, the difference is much less pronounced, but the "hl" parameter has 
significant effects on non-Japanese queries.  Here is an illustrative 
example:

English search:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=en&q=karaoke

Japanese search:
http://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=karaoke

Cheers,

Travis