Re:Website mistakes that are easily fixed
by MichaelGG on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:35PM
(#5885689)
Why is the Thai guy running Windows/Linux in English?
Why is he on the English website for Chrome in the first place?
I'm in Central America often. When downloading Chrome, I get redirected to the Spanish site. OK, so I explicitly find the English page. Download. So far, everything in English. Then Chrome itself inside the downloader overrides all that and installs in Spanish. The only way to override is to ensure I'm on a proxy.
I'd love to know the statistics of people overriding Google's localized site (forcing google.com in English versus local Google site), overriding the Chrome page (change the URL to have "en" wherever needed), running an OS in English (with no alternative keyboards), that still want it in the language of whatever country they're in.
Not to mention, this falls flat in multilingual countries.
Why is he on the English website for Chrome in the first place?
I'm in Central America often. When downloading Chrome, I get redirected to the Spanish site. OK, so I explicitly find the English page. Download. So far, everything in English. Then Chrome itself inside the downloader overrides all that and installs in Spanish. The only way to override is to ensure I'm on a proxy.
I'd love to know the statistics of people overriding Google's localized site (forcing google.com in English versus local Google site), overriding the Chrome page (change the URL to have "en" wherever needed), running an OS in English (with no alternative keyboards), that still want it in the language of whatever country they're in.
Not to mention, this falls flat in multilingual countries.