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Stanislav Lem put it earlier and much nicer.

It also explains the need for the speed of light.

1.1m results should help you here: https://www.google.ru/search?q=how+to+turn+off+UEFI

20+ year old ROM dumps which didn't have DRM.

That's exactly the point.

Except some of SNES games, for example, used different copy-protection schemes which had to be bypassed and reimplemented for emulation, google earthbound+drm or s-dd1+emulation for some insight.

Moron.

20+ year old ROM dumps which didn't have DRM.

That's exactly the point.

Except some of SNES games, for example, used different copy-protection schemes which had to be bypassed and reimplemented for emulation, google earthbound+drm or s-dd1+emulation for some insight.

Moron.

So, everyone calm down. The bottled water companies wanted to put a dubious medical claim on their bottles, and when they got caught because contrary to their expectations it was investigated by actual scientists, they decided to run to the press for sympathy, knowing that Britain's yellow journalism doesn't let facts get in the way of writing a sensationalist story.

Then look at this one.

This comparison shows the same bias as those bullshit "tablets before and after iPad" pics, chosing products for "before" to make it look like Samsung was in stone age before Apple instead of Samsung evolving alongside Apple.

In a somewhat similar vein, in 2010, Google published the look out of the window of the Trans Siberian Railway: http://www.google.ru/intl/ru/landing/transsib/en.html

Berp and Haskell go hand-in-hand. ;)

http://www.google.ru/search?hl=en&q=popil+babla

Google.ru does support baby elephants and parrots as units of measurement, though:

http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&q=1+%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%91%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BA+%D0%B2+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%8F%D1%85&btnG=%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%B2+Google&lr=&aq=f&oq=

Make these pictures automatically from very big (and slowly changing in time) alphabet so that bots will get hard time adapting to it.

Then you'll get two goals: CAPTCHA and high IQ audience.

Nothing in Russian google maps

http://maps.google.ru/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=chelyabinsk+russia&ie=UTF8&ll=55.160141,61.402341&spn=0.005075,0.016522&t=h&z=17

Are search engines going to be able to index sites using the alternative character sets?

What do you think?

(Though I've heard that for some languages, Google's indexing technology is not as smart as that of smaller players who specialize in that language. But come on, it's not really harder than indexing English.)

Isn't there at least some risk of two different sites at least appearing to have identical URLs?

Yup, this is an acknowledged risk. Is the appropriate response to that risk to ditch the whole concept of URLs in non-Latin scripts? Hell no. What about developing actual solutions to the problem instead?

Or is this really an attempt by countries like Russia and China to selectively cut their populations off from the public internet while not in actuality doing so?

So, by providing internet content that doesn't require the use of an alphabet or language that most Russians or Chinese don't master, Russia and China thereby "cut their populations off from the public internet." Good one.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that American English should be imposed on the rest of the world (I'm not that guy!), but the system in place was founded on such and I see this really mucking up the works.

Well, suppose you were Chinese, and the only language you could speak and read is Chinese. They taught you a bit of pinyin in school, sure, but you have to look at Latin letters very carefully to tell apart a 'd' from a 'b', a 'p' from a 'q', or an 'r' from a 'v'. You don't speak any English beyond phrases like "hi, how are you?".

Wouldn't you think that the fact that you can't use the Internet in Chinese was "really mucking up the works"? As in, making it fundamentally and needlessly hard to use?

There is - "Rossiya-matushka"

http://www.google.ru/search?q=%22%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Maybe try Google.ru? Perhaps they haven't, ahem... filtered their directory content as comprehensively (cue the obligatory Soviet Russia jokes)...

Because I am not a citicen of the US. Of course I don't case what google shows on http://www.google.us/ [1] but if the logo appears on http://www.google.de/ or http://www.google.ch/ I am pretty pissed (which day is it actually? - so I can check). I predict they get flamed big time if the logo shows on http://www.google.ru/ - the russians won't like it at all.

And then - last not least is http://www.google.com/ - which is [2] "Commercial entities (worldwide)" - notice the worldwide here?

Martin

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.us
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

They're going to need it.

http://www.google.cn/search?complete=1&hl=zh-CN&q= 09+f9&meta=lr%3D
http://www.google.ru/search?hl=ru&q=09+f9&btnG=%D0 %9F%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA+%D0%B2+Google&lr=lang_ ru

Yes, but where will they find snakes that think in Russian?

Which is less than google finds (4 200 000) ...

Interestingly, google is much more self-critical with 5 610 000 hits for 'google sucks'. Which is still less than what yahoo! finds for 'google sucks' (5,940,000).

Note: google results in america might differ slightly from the results from google russia, but not by much.

Which is less than google finds (4 200 000) ...

Interestingly, google is much more self-critical with 5 610 000 hits for 'google sucks'. Which is still less than what yahoo! finds for 'google sucks' (5,940,000).

Note: google results in america might differ slightly from the results from google russia, but not by much.

Which explains why:
GIS in AU
GIS in CA
GIS in FR
GIS in UK
GIS in RU
GIS in PL
GIS in IT
GIS in ES
GIS in JP

Are all so different, right?
That's not "cultural differences", mate. That's censorship.

Google *does* host the localized start pages. Some examples: Polish, German, Russian, French.

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.