Thursday, May 04, 2006

Google doing the local-motion in the Middle East

telecommunication Middle East - ط¨ط­ط« Google

The link above is the link to a search string I ran through my firefox browser from my Google search page in Arabic. The usual right-to-left-yet-still feelsodd stuff. All is well in "Camelot", or is it?

I ran the same search string from my Google bar whose region setting is not Arabia, and look at what I got

telecommunication Middle East - Google Search

Apparently a search supposedly unrestricted on the web returns different results according to the some attibutes invisible to the originator of the query. Is this localized search أ  la Google Middle East!? Check out the quality of the results and the relevance.

What do you think?

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