Google’s Gaelic language filter exhibits SEO bug.
Internet users in Scotland may have stumbled on a bug on the international Scottish language version of Google’s search engine.
Thousands of Scots are experiencing odd results when entering searches in their native Gaelic language.
“Google Gaelic” – the Scottish language version of the search engine is delivering results in English on certain search queries made in the Gaelic language and this, it appears, is causing confusion amongst thousands of searchers.
The ‘bug’ occurs when a user enters the Gaelic word “Seo” into the search field.
Seo means “this, or here” in Gaelic and is commonly appended to the end of sentences, however it appears to be fooling the Google language filter. Results are being returned in the English on Search Engine Optimisation or SEO.
Screenshot below shows Google’s language filter returning search results in English as opposed to Gaelic.
Scots internet guru Angus MacHochs said “It’s very confusing. Lots of times when I searched for stuff in my native native tongue all I got was results on “SEO Companies” promising “number 1 positions on Google”. You’d think with all Google’s millions they would get simple stuff like this right”.
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