Languages

PublicWWW is available in eleven languages. Search works the same in all of them: it matches Latin letters, digits and the underscore.

The site in your language

Every language has its own address. The pages, the documentation and the sign-in email are the same everywhere; your account, plan and searches work on all of them.

What a search matches

The index splits the source code of a page into words made of the Latin letters a-z, the digits 0-9 and the underscore _. Upper and lower case are the same. Every other character works like a space: punctuation, accented letters such as é, ü, ñ or ç, and the letters of other alphabets - Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

  • A query written only in other alphabets finds nothing: those characters are not in the index.
  • A word with an accented letter breaks at it: café is searched as caf.
  • Everything written in Latin characters is found as usual - script addresses, tracking IDs, class names, domain names, HTTP headers. In source code that is nearly everything worth searching for.

Finding sites in a language or a country

Look for the Latin markers a page carries about itself: the language in the <html> tag, the character set, the country domain, or a service popular in that market.

Language of the page

"<html lang=\"ja\""

Character set

"charset=Shift_JIS"

"windows-1251"

Country domain and a local service

site:kr "wcs.naver.net"

Country domains are listed on Country domains; every operator is on Operators.