{"id":33,"date":"2007-04-29T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T10:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ewansilver.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/google-sucks\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T10:20:53","slug":"google-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/google-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how your view of something depends on where you are viewing it from (an insight of breathtaking brilliance I know&#8230; ). Take <tag>Google<\/tag>. I quite like Google. It usually gives me what I want when I ask it. I have generally used Google from the UK and tend to get redirected to <a href=\"http:\/\/google.co.uk\">google.co.uk<\/a> as opposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">google.com<\/a> &#8211; a bit of a pain but not a killer as I am going to interact with the site in English. Recently however I have been working in Romania. I don&#8217;t speak Romanian (apart from being able to mangle the phrase &#8220;thankyou&#8221; pretty atrouciously). Nothing on my computer would indicate that I can speak Romanian. When I try to use Google.com or (as is most frequent now days) use the embedded Google search tool in Firefox I get redirected to <a href=\"http:\/\/google.ro\">google.ro<\/a> &#8211; and the search results are in Romanian. I am sure they are brilliant results &#8211; just unusable for me.<\/p>\n<p>It makes no difference if I am signed into Google (gmail id) or not. I always get redirected and get the results in Romanian. That is a REAL nightmare. I shouldn&#8217;t have to muck around with setting preferences or any of that other stuff &#8211; it should just work. Google: dont get clever, just give me what I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing how your view of something depends on where you are viewing it from (an insight of breathtaking brilliance I know&#8230; ). Take Google. I quite like Google. It usually gives me what I want when I ask it. I have generally used Google from the UK and tend to get redirected to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/google-sucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google sucks!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ewansilver.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}