Re: Language settings meta tag and doctype

"Timmermans" <steventimmermans (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

"Benjamin Niemann" <pink (AT) odahoda (DOT) de> wrote in message

p>...dutch text...</p
p xml:lang="en" lang="en">english text</p
p>...dutch text... <span xml:lang="nl" lang="nl">english word</span
... dutch </p

This I have to write down! Do these changes make a difference for
search engines as well or is this just for browser use?

AFAIK, Google is somewhat able to guess the language, but (again guess)
help might be welcomed.

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"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote

"Timmermans" <steventimmermans (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

"Benjamin Niemann" <pink (AT) odahoda (DOT) de> wrote in message

p>...dutch text...</p
p xml:lang="en" lang="en">english text</p
p>...dutch text... <span xml:lang="nl" lang="nl">english word</span
... dutch </p

This I have to write down! Do these changes make a difference for
search engines as well or is this just for browser use?

AFAIK, Google is somewhat able to guess the language, but (again guess)
help might be welcomed.

Even if your guess would be right, Google is not the only search engine out
there.

Steven

"Timmermans" <steventimmermans (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote in message
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"Timmermans" <steventimmermans (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

"Benjamin Niemann" <pink (AT) odahoda (DOT) de> wrote in message

p>...dutch text...</p
p xml:lang="en" lang="en">english text</p
p>...dutch text... <span xml:lang="nl" lang="nl">english
word</span> ... dutch </p

This I have to write down! Do these changes make a difference for
search engines as well or is this just for browser use?

AFAIK, Google is somewhat able to guess the language, but (again
guess) help might be welcomed.

Even if your guess would be right, Google is not the only search
engine out there.

True, in short, if you can provide language hints, do so. I am going to do
this on the new version of my site :-D (Planned somewhere around March
2006)

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