“?tl”参数行为异常

Hey, thanks for helping us try out translated search results (albeit incidentally) and reporting your findings. Much appreciated.

I can address a few of the items here but will also need you to answer some questions

  • What language is your browser set to when you searched on Google?
  • What search term are you using?

Somehow it appears your browser settings might be Dutch (which explains “Meer om te vragen”) but your search term is in English.


The topic you’ve referred to (How to have multiple copies of Default theme?) unfortunately is showing up as such because

  • the topic title is translated :check_mark:
  • none of the posts are translated :cross_mark:

That is why we see all posts in English (at this point of time) but the title is in Dutch.


The tl parameter setting was added long before we introduced crawler indexing for translations…

Technically speaking, the locale param should only be considered for anonymous users. Can you confirm what your user profile language is?


The typical user flow that this is generally built for is like this:

  • Diego has browser language settings to Spanish
  • He searches for problem in Spanish
  • He sees a result leading to meta (it ends with tl=es)
  • He goes into meta, reads the result in Spanish
  • He continues surfing the site in meta (because his browser language is set to Spanish)

There are a few things at play here which could throw things off course, like if the topic’s posts have not been translated yet as above, which is likely (can’t say for sure) the reason why you saw two results in Google since we’re presenting English as Dutch. One of the things we internally decided to do was believe in eventual consistency, though I would have to check why those quite-new posts have not yet been translated since April.

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