Is changing the language of page titles based on the user's IP considered cloaking?

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Purely from a ranking POV, is it worthwhile using the visitor's IP to change the title and heading of a page to the local language? Is this considered cloaking? And does Googlebot even have spiders that crawl from foreign IPs anyway? Mr Cakey, Manchester, UK

Russian subtitles translated by Mike Shakin.

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