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I'm using the Google CSE to search through a multilingual website (german, english, dutch, french).

The Problem is that I want the search to return results only in the language the user is on e.g. www.coolsite.de/en/?q=hotel should only return results in english.

The documentation says:

You can restrict the search to documents written in a particular language (e.g., lr=lang_ja).

so that's exactly what I want to achieve!

But my search still returns german results when lr is set to lang_en (available languages). All my pages have set language in html-Tag like this:

<html lang="en"> or <html lang="de">

they also contain <meta name="language" content="en" /> or <meta name="language" content="de" /> (is this the correct value for the meta? I read that the value should contain the full name of the language?!)

Am I missing something?

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My workaround was to set the hq-Parameter (Appends the extra query terms to the query.) to site:http://www.coolsite.de/[language-I-want-to-search-in]/

It would have also been possible to filter for data contained in my PageMap.

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You're adding this via custom JS?
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The best solution I can find is to create a separate configuration per language on the same site. Then depending on the language in the URL of my site (.e.g /es/blah for Spanish) I set a different CX value in the call to cse.js. This let's me customise the config for each language and makes Google show the interface in that language too.

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