Since I am staying in Egypt, Google automatically converts to Arabic mode, which has writing from right-to-left. It's a new experience to be typing on the right hand side of the search box instead of the left.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Shock to the Google System
There is nothing more strange than to visit your friend Google in a foreign country, and find that all the words are squiggly backwards!
Since I am staying in Egypt, Google automatically converts to Arabic mode, which has writing from right-to-left. It's a new experience to be typing on the right hand side of the search box instead of the left.
Since I am staying in Egypt, Google automatically converts to Arabic mode, which has writing from right-to-left. It's a new experience to be typing on the right hand side of the search box instead of the left.
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Wow, that's weird!
When I was in Germany, google.com defaulted to (obviously) google.de - so it would pull up German results everything I tried to google something - it was annoying to not get to the English one easily! :-)
dude, have you picked up any Arabic? What's happening with the Gazans coming over? Have they gotten as far west as Alexandria?
Arabic is a hard language for a white boy, both in printed and spoken forms. Thankfully, whenever I mention "algorithms" and "algebra," the students perk up.
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