Re: Narrow down search of Lilypond documentation to English

[Federico Bruni]

Il giorno sab 21 mar 2015 alle 16:39, Colin Tennyson 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> >  If you click on "Search tools", just below the search bar of 
> > google, a
> >  dropdown menu appears where you can choose to display only pages in 
> > your
> >  language.
>
> Here's an odd thing: it seems that Google displays differently to 
> different
> users.
> In my case Google offers me three (drop down menu) Search Tools:
> - Anytime (the dropdown offers choices of time frame)
> - All results (the dropdown menu offers: 'all results',  'reading 
> level',
> 'verbatim')
> - Location (the city I live in)
>
> So in my case , visiting Google using Firefox, the search tools do 
> not offer
> language selection.
> But I understand from you that you *do* get a language selection 
> option.
>
> (Of course, there are also the Google preferences, where you can set 
> things
> like 'Safe search filters' and 'results per page' and so on. I those
> preferences there is a language selection option and  I have set 
> Google to
> serve me pages in english only. (Now, as far as I know Google doesn't
> enforce that preference rigidly. If I type in a non-english word I 
> also get
> search results in the language that that word is from. My impression 
> is that
> the Google engineers choose to cast a wide net.))

You should be able to set the language here:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Unfortunately, there's no language: operator to use directly in the 
main search.


> >  It's because of the automatic language selection.
> >  An URL without extension will serve a different page depending on 
> > the
> >  language settings of the user browser: name.it.html if italian, 
> > name.html
> >  if english and so on.
>
> That is new to me. I consider myself to be a heavy internet browsing 
> user, a
> heavy Google user; I have not come across this before.
> Can you possibly direct me to more information about this?

I don't know the details of how it works.
I think that you should google "language negotiation apache" :-)