OneAndOneIs2

Mon, Jan 22, 2007

First Google, and now Microsoft

• Post categories: Omni, Rant

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Look, to all you companies who are trying to be so bloody clever: If you're going to deliver your poxy website content in different languages depending on where you think people are connecting to it from, put a bloody link in somewhere prominent so we can correct you when you're wrong!

Just because I connect via a proxy server in Switzerland, it doesn't mean I speak fluent German. I'd appreciate it if websites such as Blogger.com and Microsoft.com at least gave me the option to read them in FUCKING ENGLISH if that's not too much to ask.

It is the language spoken by the people who run the companies in question. It's not an unreasonable request. If I want German, I'll go to ".co.de" and not ".com"

RRRGH! [Smiley]

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2 comments

Comment from: Erez Schatz [Visitor]

Amen to that, brother.

At least you're getting it Left-to-Right. What I'm seeing is a botched Right-to-Left Hebrew site. Sometimes it sends me to google.co.il. That's when I can simply click "go to Google.com" and get it over with. Other times I have to demand to go to google.co.il, and only then can I go BACK to Google.com and view it in English (yes, Hebrew's my native language, but google.co.il looks like the pits. Worse than the pits, it looks like the pits trying to show that other pits have worst RtL than they).

22/01/07 @ 17:19

Comment from: sokuban [Visitor] · http://www.fantasyanime.com

Oh I guess I can't go to Microsoft then. Oh well.

I remember when I went to the debian page and I had to reload each page to tell me the stuff in english. Because it auto does it in Japanese. I know a bit of Japanese but I ain't perfect.

26/01/07 @ 01:55

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