It seems weird for a post that should have been about UX to boil down to a short rant insulting Google, SF, and I guess tech in general. Why? Why sling mud at people who likely have no hidden agenda and are trying to make something easy to use?
This has to do with the authors specific workflow as a professional translator. As a person who has a number of niche workflows this is just something you get used to. If you have niche needs then sometimes you need a niche product or something custom to workaround the problem. I don't think this has anything to do with people who are multilingual -- I only have anecdata so I'll phrase it as a conjecture: almost everyone, even people who are multilingual, probably search in a single language.
Counter-conjecture based the anecdata I observe around me: Most people that a) live in a country which doesn't have English as the major language and b) work in a professional field (IT, many fields of science) or have an interest (lot of niches) that primarily publish/communicate in English regularly search in different languages.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 20.0 ms ] threadThis has to do with the authors specific workflow as a professional translator. As a person who has a number of niche workflows this is just something you get used to. If you have niche needs then sometimes you need a niche product or something custom to workaround the problem. I don't think this has anything to do with people who are multilingual -- I only have anecdata so I'll phrase it as a conjecture: almost everyone, even people who are multilingual, probably search in a single language.
It's a major hassle when the default language guessed by google is wrong, it constantly is for millions of people.
You're completely wrong.