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Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by rmckayfleming on Thursday September 26, 2013 @05:09PM (#6453658)
Google has an interesting localization issue when it comes to Canada. If you ask it for someone's height, it gives it in metric, but everyone here uses imperial for body related measurements. The same goes for area, I hear acre a lot more than hectare, but "How big is disneyland" gives me 65ha.
Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by crucini on Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:13PM (#6454868)
There must be a name for this syndrome - tendency of US-based developers to over-exoticize foreign places, taking at face value all official units of measure, languages, etc.
Re:Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algor... by benvd on Friday September 27, 2013 @07:49AM (#6456453)
When it comes to grammar, the term hypercorrection is typically used. Seems like it could be applied here as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection