Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:18:43 +0900, ilbey  ...
> >
> >In google they just check your location, and redirect you to your country
> >google.
> >
> >If you don't want to see it happen, simply click at the google in English
> >link at the right bottom. Then when you write google.com next time you will
> >always go to english page.
> >
> >By the way for some other sites (apache.org for example) they check your
> >language preferences order, and redirect you after this criteria. So it is
> >always a good practice to put English (or else) to first place on your
> >language prefs.
> >
> 
> I've written Google a few nasty emails about this. They should check
> language preferences not just assume that everyone in the Japanese address
> space wants Japanese.

I've noticed that various sites (such as Apple) now detect our IP and
translate prices into yen, presumably for the customer's convenience.
But we don't want to pay in yen--certainly not by a Japanese credit card
over the Internet, nor by an overseas credit card that will introduce
yet another currency conversion loss....

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