This isn't a problem for me on the pc, but on the iPhone, sometimes I want to kill someone it is so annoying. Even though the OS itself is totally language-localized, there is no setting to choose the language of the built-in google search in safari, and it always ends up searching in Japanese for me.
OK, so let's make a bookmark to a localized google. Hey, there is a built-in main-page bookmark to Google! Which you cannot edit.
So you have to jump through so many hoops that I just grit my teeth while a search for "widget-342 review" returns 10 pages in japanese that all contain the word "review" in katakana. Sometimes the small-mindedness of these half-baked localizations is extremely annoying, all the more so because I know the engineers that wrote it have almost certainly NEVER tested their code except as "US English, operating on a US network".
OK, so let's make a bookmark to a localized google. Hey, there is a built-in main-page bookmark to Google! Which you cannot edit.
So you have to jump through so many hoops that I just grit my teeth while a search for "widget-342 review" returns 10 pages in japanese that all contain the word "review" in katakana. Sometimes the small-mindedness of these half-baked localizations is extremely annoying, all the more so because I know the engineers that wrote it have almost certainly NEVER tested their code except as "US English, operating on a US network".