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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Peter da Silva wrote: > Unfortunately Dilbert only keeps a couple of week online, I think > the comic for Feb 16 2003 explains it all, but googling for "dilbert > 20030216" should come up with a hit or two [1]. I'm impressed that you remember the date of the comic in question. > [1] I rarely have reason to hate Google, and the last time I did they > fixed the problem the same day I mailed them about it, and sent me > a personal email to let me know it was fixed. Isn't it sad that kind > of response is rare enough that it's worth commenting on? I have a hate about Google--their annoying country-forward. If I go to google.com, it shunts me off to google.nl unless I let it store a cookie saying that I prefer google.com. If I wanted to go to google.nl, I'd have typed google.nl! I was not impressed with their response. I complained when the feature was first implemented (and I know I wasn't the only one). The advice I got was to type in www.google.com/en (I should type three extra characters to get around a bad idea that was designed to save an idiot from typing -1 extra characters). For a while that worked, and then it stopped working and I had to accept the cookie. If they're going to try to be so clever, why don't they check my locale instead of my IP? But what I really want, of course, is for them to realize that my IQ is high enough to allow me to click on the bold link 'Go to Google Nederland' if for some reason I wasn't smart enough to type in google.nl if that was the URL I wanted.There's stuff above here
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