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		crazedpsyc on Nov 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think DuckDuckGo would do better changing that Q... You can type "r:xx" in your query to set the region, in any case. (e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bonjour+r%3Afr )

mbq on Nov 24, 2012 [–]

I do, like, 40% of searches in my language, so it is still a lot of work. Anyway, language recognition is actually pretty easy nowadays, especially with the amount of data DDG has from crawling -- if they care about foreigners of course.

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