Strong bias to Spanish language online search results

[Pete Woods]

In the video scope, many searches find spanish language results. Searching for, e.g. "Hello", produces quite unexpected results.

Is the smart scopes server's IP address geolocatable to be in a Spanish-speaking country or something like that? Is the user's locale getting all the way through to online search?

I see this MR (https://code.launchpad.net/~marcustomlinson/unity-scopes-api/send_locale_with_sss_list/+merge/218914), but I'm not sure if that's really aimed at addressing this problem completely.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

Pete, I just tried this. I get five results for "Hello", none of which are Spanish.

Can you re-check this? Something in the machinery may have changed since you opened the bug, but I don't have the context to decide whether that's really the case.

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

If this still exists, it should probably be for ubuntu-rest-scopes, since that is probably where the results were coming from (unity-scope-mediascanner just contains the local media scopes plus aggregators).