news.ycombinator.com• Dec 28, 2025• 1 min read
Tell HN: Google ignores English searches and forces localized resultsGoogle Search change in a way that I can’t seem to opt out of.I’m based in a non-English-speaking country, but I regularly search in English, especially for technical topics.My Google account, my laptop, my phone, my interface language, and preferences are all set to English; only my physical location and payment methods are local.What happens is that Google increasingly returns localized results in my native language and aggressively applies automatic translation.Some concrete behaviors I’m seeing:- Queries written in English still prioritize pages in Portuguese, even when equivalent English sources exist.- Reddit results are often force-translated instead of linking to the original English content.- “AI mode” responses are always in Portuguese, even when the prompt is clearly in English, with no visible way to force output language.- The UI offers a choice between “Portuguese” and “All web,” but selecting “All web” doesn’t reliably return English results nor disable translation.- In