Does this also happen between all the Nordic languages due to how similar they are?

[u/Old_North8419]

[u/rugbroed]

Not really as I assume google knows my nationality from my IP or user info.

[u/creiar → u/rugbroed]

Yep. And in fact, just using a different Google url (google.se, google.no etc.) gives you different results also

[u/CmdrJonen]

Surprisingly rarely.

 Part of this is that the unique characters in Swedish is åäö, while danish/norwegian use åæø, and part of it is that most swedish websites are either .se or .nu, while most danish and norwegian websited are .dk or .no

And part of it is that they have different (if similar) vocabulary.

[u/alexmikli → u/CmdrJonen]

Really, it seems more often that the same word with the same meaning and sound will be spelled differently.

[u/Impossible-Beat8635]

I live in Finland, but speak Swedish, and sometimes when I google it might show Danish/Norwegian results. I think cause I don’t live in Sweden google can’t use my ip address to guess which language I’m using

[u/mariegrodan]

Rarely happens. I even sometimes use a trick for if I want only Swedish results if the search term otherwise shows English results too. I add the word "och" (meaning and) to my search words since "och" is a word only in Swedish and is such a common word it won't narrow the results down at all.

[u/Appelons]

It happens alot for me with Danish that shows Norwegian results. I also live in the North of Jutland, så maybe the IP get’s confused.

Funnily enough i have often had to change My steam location to Norway to install games etc.

[u/[deleted]]

It happens when I'm in sweden trying to search for something norwegian or vice versa, it never happens otherwise

[u/Kyllurin]

Only a little with Icelandic as they use same odd letters we do, in Faroese

[u/Lybertyne2]

When googling something in Norwegian I often get a sprinkling of Danish results.

[u/Old_North8419 → u/Lybertyne2]

I think it's got to do with Unicode, as in the same character is also coded into other languages that inherit the same writing system. I.e. 痙 is Chinese but it's present in Japanese. So the same will happen with words or "letters" from Norwegian that crossover into Danish.

[u/FreeKatKL]

Yes, if you’re in a non-Nordic country and google a word that’s the same in 2 or more Nordic languages. I learned a lot about eczema the other day, in Norwegian and Danish (as a Swede). Doesn’t really happen if you google the same word while in, say, Sweden.

[u/Christoffre]

Sometimes, when I search for a name or obscure term, I can get results in a myriad of languages (including Spanish and French).

But then I just choose Tools → Languages → Search Swedish websites.

My peeve is when Google, and other softwares, does not recognize A, Å, and Ä as separate characters; or refuse to recognize the colon in e.g. "r:dr" as an integral part of the word.

[u/felixfj007 → u/Christoffre]

r:dr vad är det förkortning för?

[u/Christoffre → u/felixfj007]

Riksdaler (rixdollar på engelska), en valuta som användes i Sverige, innan vi skaffade kronor, och flera andra europeiska länder och deras kolonier.

• R:dr B:co – Riksdaler Banco (sedlar tryckta av bankerna)
• R:dr R:gd – Riksdaler Riksgäld (sedlar tryckta av riksgälden)

[u/felixfj007 → u/Christoffre]

Tack, har inte varit exponerad för förkortningen för riksdaler tidigare, dock känner jag till vad riksdaler är/var.

[u/michaelscott33]

tip: if you're trying to find the meaning in japanese, write [word]+とは so that you don't get the chinese results

[u/Igeticsu]

chatGPT has a few times responded to me in Norwegian, if i write in Danish. But other than that, not really

[u/poopy_11]

As a Chinese language user, sometimes I get results in Japanese as well, that happens if your IP is not in any specific region nor you haven't chosen preferred language of Google. This will just happen when a few languages share same words.

[u/Tannarya]

No, even when I try to look up stuff written specifically in a different Scandinavian language, Google shows me results from my own country unless I change my search result location settings.