Comments on: Google woes

By: Avy Scott

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By: Backword Dave

Backword Dave — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 05:25:00 +0000

John — "Cos we invented it ;-)" — largely true for the internet, but we mean the Web here don’t we? And it’s true that was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, but he was working for CERN at the time. CERN stands for Centre European pour Recherche Nuclear. Very English.

By: Chris Lightfoot

Chris Lightfoot — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:52:00 +0000

"Not in Linux you can't."

The standard X11 way to do this is to set up AltGr as a "compose" key, and then type 3-key sequences. E.g. Compose, o, " gives ö, Compose, ', e gives é.

By: john b

john b — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:48:00 +0000

They have the national sites, but they don’t really gear them to other languages – they just make certain advanced search options available on the front page. So Google.de gives you buttons to search sites in German or with German doman names, but you can do this from the advanced menu or by typing in site:de anyway. None of the underlying stuff is customised…

By: Timbeaux

Timbeaux — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 19:55:00 +0000

Google has engines geared for other languages. If you’re looking for something french go to http://www.google.com/intl/fr/ ; german go to http://www.google.de/

Not going to help much if you’re looking for articles in English though, I suspect.

By: john b

john b — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 16:01:00 +0000

Given that the Finns are no strangers to accents, it’s odd that Linus Torvalds didn’t build it in to start with.

But I thought people in mainland Europe had keyboards that can deal with accents much more easily? Or do the French just use AZERTY to annoy Anglophones…?

By: Reinder Dijkhuis

Reinder Dijkhuis — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:53:00 +0000

Well, not in the boxed linuxes that I’m familiar with. But it should be possible to edit the keymap to allow for the use of AltGr and a character to form accented characters (why SuSE, which is German, doesn’t deliver this out of the box is a bit of a puzzler for me).

By: Biscit

Biscit — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:59:00 +0000

Not in Linux you can’t.

By: john b

john b — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:17:00 +0000

But why should the Internet be solely geared towards English-speakers?

Cos we invented it ;-)

Erm, it needn't be solely geared towards English speakers, and my paragraph about how everyone ought to be forced to write in the standard 26 letters rather than pissing about with accents isn't entirely serious.

However, Google.com *should* be solely geared towards English speakers (and google.fr solely geared towards French speakers, etc). Why bother with having multiple different-language portals if you're not actually going to make significant language adjustments?

BTW if you've got a UK keyboard, you can press AltGr and e together to get an é. Graves are more challenging...

By: Jez

Jez — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:25:00 +0000

But why should the Internet be solely geared towards English-speakers?

But I agree, it is a pain in the arse to have to do ALT+130 for "é" every time I search for French words in Google.