Some web sites try to be helpful and they end up screwing you. Today I logged into MySpace and because my connection must be routed via some Spanish ISP MySpace decided that I would like to see the site in Spanish. But the best part is that I’m logged in and clicked a link that opened up my email so they know damn well that I’ve only ever used the site in English. My Spanish isn’t all that great but I can guess many of the things but damn if I can find how to turn the settings back to English because . . . all the navigation is in Spanish!!! I finally had to go to Google and find instructions on Yahoo on how to change my MySpace back to English. Oh, and it’s very intuitive. The US has two language options: Spanish and EEUU. EEUU?? Turns out that EEUU is English.
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The same thing happened to me last week when I was in Amsterdam. I go to do a Google search and Google has decided that even though I’m logged in and have always used English settings that I suddenly would prefer to see their site in Dutch. Now, my Spanish isn’t great but my Dutch is non-existent. I guess the one good thing about Google is that they have so few navigation links that it’s easy to remember where to click on to get to language settings. But if I was your average guy on business in Holland I would be screwed.
Same has happened to me in Thailand which is even worse because the entire site ends up being in Thai script. Try navigating your way around that.
If they’re going to auto-serve you content based on where the traffic originates they should have a very prominent way to change your language settings.
Okay, I feel better now. I had to get that out of my system. :-)
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Bill Rini has been working in the online poker industry since 2004. He was a product manager for poker at Full Tilt and was the poker room manager at PartyPoker.
Bill has been blogging about online poker since 2003 and is considered one of the leading authorities on the online poker industry.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
