Strange language bug with Safari Pre-Load Top Hit

[OrlandoTragic]

I like to quickly get sports scores by searching in Safari and looking at the pre-load top hit results.

This has always worked fine for me, but now when I do this, the results that load for me are showing in a foreign language (looks like Hindi??)

I've cleared my Safari cache/cookies, reset network settings, all the standard troubleshooting, but nothing is helping. Interestingly, this is seemingly only happening on soccer scores. When I search "MLB scores" for example, everything is in English.

This isn't a huge deal, but as someone that works in web development I'm fascinated by what the underlying root cause for this could be. Anyone seen this before? (Running iOS 15.6.1)

A few examples:

 

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[DeltaMac]

Any change if you change the search engine in Safari settings?
Try DuckDuckGo, instead of Google

 

[OrlandoTragic]

Any change if you change the search engine in Safari settings?
Try DuckDuckGo, instead of Google

Tried this - no dice, same behavior still happening. Super strange.

 

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Change the region and language settings for the search engine site at the top of a search page. I use Duck Duck Go and just tested this by changing the Region to Switzerland (fr.) and the language to French. Closed that window and did a normal search, and it all came up in French. Switched it back to US English.

Here's what the settings bar looks like at the top of a DDG window. Google search has similar settings.

 

[OrlandoTragic]

Change the region and language settings for the search engine site at the top of a search page. I use Duck Duck Go and just tested this by changing the Region to Switzerland (fr.) and the language to French. Closed that window and did a normal search, and it all came up in French. Switched it back to US English.

Here's what the settings bar looks like at the top of a DDG window. Google search has similar settings.

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I thought it might be something like this but its still happening - I don't think its an issue with the search, I think its an issue with the Safari "Pre-Load Top Hit" feature - the Google search results are showing in English, its the top hit content that's appearing incorrectly. This is so strange and fascinating to me lol

 

[0128672]

I thought it might be something like this but its still happening - I don't think its an issue with the search, I think its an issue with the Safari "Pre-Load Top Hit" feature - the Google search results are showing in English, its the top hit content that's appearing incorrectly. This is so strange and fascinating to me lol

And is the Google region set to US?

 

[OrlandoTragic]

And is the Google region set to US?

Yep!

 

[Jackk_]

I like to quickly get sports scores by searching in Safari and looking at the pre-load top hit results.

This has always worked fine for me, but now when I do this, the results that load for me are showing in a foreign language (looks like Hindi??)

I've cleared my Safari cache/cookies, reset network settings, all the standard troubleshooting, but nothing is helping. Interestingly, this is seemingly only happening on soccer scores. When I search "MLB scores" for example, everything is in English.

This isn't a huge deal, but as someone that works in web development I'm fascinated by what the underlying root cause for this could be. Anyone seen this before? (Running iOS 15.6.1)

A few examples:

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