Chris Saul's Blog

Tuesday May 27, 2008

English option please, Google

Google are right to make the efforts they do to localise their products, but they could do with having a link to the English or other language versions of their pages.

I may be accessing Blogger or some other Google service from Dubai, Istanbul or Islamabad, but that doesn't mean I want to see the Arabic, Turkish or Urdu versions of what Google has to offer.

The search page usually has an English link, but other pages don't, which can get confusing.

Time vacuum

Two hours ago some workmen arrived at the flat to fix the varnish on my front door.

They told me it would take one hour. Two hours on, all that appears to have happened is that the front door has been removed and everyone's disappeared.

I hope, for the workmen's sake more than anyhting else, that the door is returned before Mrs Saul gets home...