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Search engines continue to ignore LANG markup	Andreas Prilop	02-28-2007

Posted by Andreas Prilop on February 28, 2007, 11:54 am

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I have three test pages that are marked as Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, resp. by

Content-Language: it
<html lang="it">
<body lang="it">

and the same for "es" and "pt".

Yahoo regards all three pages as Italian:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22idioma+latino+presente%22&dups=1&fl=1&vl=lang_it

Google regards one as English (What??) and two as Spanish:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22idioma+latino+presente%22&lr=lang_en
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22idioma+latino+presente%22&lr=lang_es

:-(

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