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The start page for Firefox isn't the default Google page, but rather a customized page with the Firefox logo. But you're right, there are localized versions of that available as well:

Google Firefox Netherlands

Google Firefox France

I thought he was talking about the "Firefox Start" pages.... Like this and this

I think he was talking about the firefox start page
That too, however, is available in multiple languages:
try, for example
Netherlands
or
France
Or if you want another language, like klingon, you can just set it in the preferences

If Google were to host the Start Page in different languages

FYI Google DO host the start page in different languages and heres a couple o them:

Google Netherlands

Google France

But if you are in Germany and type in http://google.ca, low and behold, you get Google Canada, the Canadian Google site. Google.com, Google.se, Google.fr, Google.ch, Google.ru, Google.co.nz, Google.co.au, all appear to work from other countries, and I presume all of the 113 country local domains should also work. I have no idea if the search results vary, as that is a study for someone else to do.

Why only French and German to the exclusion of Italian [...]?

Actually, it seems to just affect google.fr.

Compare google.com

and

google.fr
Seeing as to how this search was done from FL from a Sprint IP, I don't think google is trying to do a geographic reverse IP lookups.

They don't. Ads on Google.com wouldn't change, ads on Google.fr would be purged of evil repressive unfair American-style advertisements.

Oui. Ce serait une idée très bonne.

Elsewhere like searching on Google France which is what the article is about?

Psst...

Look at what you get when you search google images for ".NET"...

And you in turn, please google for the string "dirty sanchez".

And if you don't feel lucky:
french military victories -> 266000 results
french military defeats -> 120000 results

And if you don't feel lucky:
french military victories -> 266000 results
french military defeats -> 120000 results

Actually, according to France Telecom, DSL was invented in BellCore Labs in 1987. :)

If you don't like the new itnerface, just use it with a country code domain rather than .com. I've checked the UK, Canadian, French, German, and Australian versions, and all have the classic interface, rather than the new one.

use mirrors instead:

http://www.google.co.jp/
http://www.google.fr/
http://www.google.se/
http://www.google.fi/
http://www.google.ca/

all above seem to be responsive atleast to me

I prefer Bukkakeshita...

Not to be a smartass myself, but isn't that counter-intuitive?

If you go to www.google.fr and search for AXA, no ads show up (anymore). So it looks like Google pulled the AdWord already. Do they feel guilty then?

Yes, there has been a quick change by Google. However, I don't believe that the US google service was in question.

Adwords is different for each region.

There are over 200 countries, and each of them have an office of trademarks. Google has servers in ~50 of these countries - but Adwords is different for each region.

Because even though Google or Wikipedia and, well, the entire internet, are nice and/or useful, the information they carry is hardly worthy of trust.

But to be honest, my encyclopedia (Britannica, paper edition) is circa 1975 and I don't really take what it says at face value anymore when it comes to high-technologies and the latest and greatest in science. But for 99.9% of its content, it's just fine, which it just as well because it cost me over $1000 when I bought it!

I found many more documents on that. It seems many people talk about that everywhere in the World except in the US.

Amazing how people from foreign countries know usually better on the way the US works economically than most US citizens do :)

Here is the best document I found:
Click here.

Many more thanks to Google:
Click here.

And 'windows' was definately a generic computing term before MS took it for the name of their product.

Nice Troll. You probably don't know how to "Google" very well, then... Or you don't read French:

Google Search: 'Farewell DGSE'

Search for 'Farewell' on the following pages:

Some successes of the DGSE.
French/English analysis of the DGSE.
DST/DGSE comparison.

And I'll add one of my own:
dgse.org (unofficial French fan club).

Sheesh...

And we're still friends with these Yahoos?

No, I haven't been friends with Yahoo! in quite a while. I much prefer Google.

Regards,
Jdif

this is going to be the most expensive slashdotting ever ... (try and tell me you didn't click on that link!)

you slashdot guys are so good to us - you figured we'd want that warm fuzzy feeling from having just cost someone a shitload of money from doing nothing but that we'd be too lazy to actually goto google and type it in ourselves

with the i-opener we actually had to go out and buy the things, now we get to bring a company to its knees just by clicking a link ...

my new sig's going to be:

click here and google losses $1500

For making business in France, Google has created "Google France" which is a French company, and has to respect French laws, including paying fines. The fact that this French company hosts its servers in California does not stop them from having to respect French law when selling trademark words in France to other French companies.

I guess that if that happens on google.com, the French law has no effect, but is if it on google.fr, the law applies. So perhaps google will have to drop the ads on its French site.

but IANAA (I am not an Avocat (French for lawyer))

Just because the servers are there, doesn't mean they don't have offices in France. The French offices are subject to France laws, regardless where the servers are located.

At www.google.fr, Google lists a physical office in Paris. So Google certainly does have an operating presence in France.

Reading the article, it seems to me that advertisers can't advertise on trademarked phrases like "bourse des vols" -- but they could still advertise on "bourse" and "vols" separately. And all the ads could have originated that way.

If so all Google would need to do was check from each advertiser that the phrase they're "buying" isn't the trademark of a competing product. (eg, someone buying "Ford" to advertise a biography of Gerald Ford needn't worry about lawsuits from Ford Motors -- but GM can't buy the word "Ford" to advertise their own cars.)

It's another matter that I don't believe generic phrases like "bourse des vols" should be trademarkable...

Google should dump Google.fr and continue doing what they're doing. That'll leave the French courts with no one to sue nationally and will be another nail in the coffin for French xenophobia.

The paper has been published in Foundation of Physics Letters. This journal doe not have a good reputation. The Editor in Chief of the Letters is listed as a member of the infamous AIAS. Read here and here. and links therein. In particular read this paper. Chances are that indeed the "Zeno paper" is a disinfo paper. ark

But they have news in french

... although PM's price is kinda low compared to your laptop, you can still use google to find many free programs which will allow you to resize it for free

However, I'm pretty sure that the image is a ghost image and you may be able to work on it to fit it on a previously partitionned HD

I remember when I was in university, my roommate got a Sony VAIO. I think that telling its story could provide some information about how proprietary hardware could cause you headaches, especially with manufacturers such as Sony:

At first we were amazed at its design and size. But in the following months, he had to buy stuff and accessories from Sony (Sony's stuff is not often compatible with other manufacturers hardware) which were about twice more expensive than their counterparts from other manufacturers. That is even more true with PDAs upgrades which are extremely expensive compared to the original price of the device.

When he wanted to install a BSD, there was no support for his laptop for some months because Sony did not release at this time specs of the hardware used. Not to mention the integrated Wincam which was unusable outside of Windows

When XP was available, he discovered that he could not install it because of the proprietary hardware and there was no drivers available for windows XP on the Sony website. Furthermore Sony does not deliver Windows install CDs, but restore disks. When he contacted Sony, the last tech he talked to said they (Sony) don't support XP Pro since it wasn't the original software installed. Sorry, but his little sticker said "designed for Windows XP".

Not to mention some poor design about heat/small size, after a hour or more of an operation which uses alot of CPU (compiling, playing some video, picture editing), the back part of the laptop was so hot that he burned himself one time in closing it.

You just have to search some reviews from users on google Google, to see that many users had complaints about their proprietary hardware. So knowing that Sony will use a proprietary processor in their PDA kinda scares me and I hope that future users of this device will not encounter as much problems as he did.

... give tips about how to spend these $1000 How to spend $1000

If it was these two then I envy John Smith :-)

SB

• Microsoft will be forced to comply to a DOJ judgment!
• SCO is suing IBM and actually WITHDREW AIX LICENSE!!
• Europe is going to accept GMOs!!!
• And, in Peoria, Ill., John Smith, 20-years-old Slashdot poster and troll extraordinaire, actually got LAID!!!!

Re: Q: Info on SVR4 ES -- Enhanced Security

Here's source for Sequent input into SVR4 ES/MP:

Re: sco, mpx, multi processor and Re: YES!!! - SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit

It's a big gif; where are Sequent on it?

Re: Q: Info on SVR4 ES -- Enhanced Security

Here's source for Sequent input into SVR4 ES/MP:

Re: sco, mpx, multi processor and Re: YES!!! - SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit

It's a big gif; where are Sequent on it?

Re: Q: Info on SVR4 ES -- Enhanced Security

Here's source for Sequent input into SVR4 ES/MP:

Re: sco, mpx, multi processor and Re: YES!!! - SCO Group Slaps IBM with $1B Suit

It's a big gif; where are Sequent on it?

$ host alioth.debian.org
alioth.debian.org A 192.87.30.200

$ whois 192.87.30.200
SURFnet BV EJBNET (NET-192-87-0-0-1)
192.87.0.0 - 192.87.255.255
TERENA Secretariat TERENA (NET-192-87-30-0-1)
192.87.30.0 - 192.87.30.255

Seems to be some "terana group"
Confirmation with
$ traceroute alioth.debian.org

In your favorite browser: http://www.google.fr/search?q=terena
where you'll learn that terana is Trans European Research and Educational Networking Association.

Barriers to entry are so high that trying to compete is practically impossible. Better spend your money on a partnership with an operator. There are numerous examples of large buildings setting up pico-cells inside to ensure good deep coverage. They most likely cover the hardware and setup costs and let the operators bid for access. Then, the negociation hangs on the demographics of the covered population. If it were good enough the operator would already be there, so that means that you will at best give an operator free access to your network. But then you'll have cell phone coverage. Just keep in mind that each BTS will set you back 100-500k USD, so maybe whata you really want is just a VHF relay and handheld transceivers for your employees.

You may also wish to have a look at PMR networks such as TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio). Many large industrial sites that need mission critical secure mobile coverage have turned to it with much success.

A Tetra FAQ
A Tetra introduction

Not being a US resident, I am not sure of which law your are refering to.
My memories claim that it was Bush Sr who announced the coming of a new world order it seems that others on the web remember this event also
However I did not wish to polemic on whether B or C were best, I was just quoting (hence the quotes).

They use the same database. Watch this:

Japan
France
Northern Ireland Occupation Force

There's no real benefit searching multiple Google sites, they all point to the same database.