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I can not recall experiencing a single instance of the geolocation API being used for either of these things.


Perhaps you should travel more? Try using a browser on cloud VMs in different regions, Google, Bing and Amazon will be happy to serve you their services in the language that indeed relevant to their local employees who are busy maintaining the infrastructure running your VM.


They use IP location for that since the geolocation API requires permission. Google does ask for it on mobile for hyperlocal results but it will still localize the services using IP otherwise




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