# ?tl parameter behaving oddly

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl-parameter-behaving-oddly/384806
**Category:** Bug
**Tags:** content-localization
**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl-parameter-behaving-oddly/384806 "2025-10-06T15:55:44Z")
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### Author: ![nat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nat/32/235063_2.png) [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tl-parameter-behaving-oddly/384806/6 "2025-10-07T07:57:20Z")

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> [@RGJ](#):
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> ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/5/4/154b45602a09b09f924a96dff0ea561ca9bbb849.png)

> [@RGJ](#):
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> As you can see in the screenshot of the Google search results page, Google _also_ offers me a mixture of English and Dutch. It’s probably doing that because I am physically located in the Netherlands. When I travel to Germany it will give me a mixture of English and German. My theory is that the `?tl=nl` search result might have been slipped in by Google because of my location (which is stupid but yeah).

Yeah, I think you’ve presented a case here which isn’t something that we’ve known to see. I definitely do not expect Google to insert Dutch if you’ve not set that up anywhere.

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