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Comment on Google isn’t Google everywhere by Kai

Kai — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:42:15 +0000

This is very true. I have noticed dramatic differences in search results when searching on Google.com from my personal PC, with a Swedish IP, as opposed to hiding behind a proxy server. Note: in both cases I used Google.COM!
And I don’t like this, since I want ME - NOT Google - to decide if I prefer to make a regional or a global search!

Comment on How should we critique ‘Critical Design’? by Luther Thie

Luther Thie — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:37:34 +0000

Following on Edan’s comment “if ‘critical deisgn objects’ occupy an unfulfilling position in between philosophy and industry, acheiving only partially what a committed philosophical text or industrial product can deliver.” — how many people read philosophical texts? I think for me, critical design is more accessible and offers a way for the audience to grapple with technological issues associated with consumer society in relevant and essential ways. And it takes industrial design in a more meaningful direction. But I do understand people’s problem with calling it design, why not just call it art and leave it at that? Well, maybe that’s a good point, but there is so much crossover these days, having a genre called critical design offers designers an outlet to question design products and the many contradictions inherent in consumer culture. I find it very fulfilling in making people think about what we buy, use, make. and of course the work often has a good dose of humor and insight and probably inspires designers to make straightforward product design — maybe inspire a more human-centered design?

Comment on Piggybacked Street Furniture by Bespoke Furniture

Bespoke Furniture — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:40:52 +0000

hey there wow that telephone cashpoint is amazing the only down side would be that the person who is using the cash point could hear the converstion of the person on the phone so it could become not so a very good privecy thing especially if its an important call that is needed to be made .. i know alot of the population have mobiles but unfortunaly todays mobiles the battery does not last as they say they do … in some ways i can see this being a very good idea but in others not so good …Would you want someone listening in on your conversation ….

Comment on Prepaid Travel vs. Price Cap by Felix

Felix — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:44:28 +0000

reply to sweek - the sample above doesn’t show any price cap nor was it meant to. Indirectly it communicates to what length one has to go to, in order to find out what the eventual cap is/was. The whole post is more about the experience - and the difference in experience between the touching in and out and the prepaid travel. Basically what the perception in users heads is.

Comment on Prepaid Travel vs. Price Cap by sweek

sweek — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:01:05 +0000

I have never had any problems with this at all. In the example you’re showing us, this person made his/her first journey before 9.30 AM, thus the price cap is not for the off-peak but the peak day travelcard for those respective zones. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happened here.

Comment on Google isn’t Google everywhere by Internationalization and Google Search Results : Power Blog

Internationalization and Google Search Results : Power Blog — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:33:24 +0000

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Comment on Google isn’t Google everywhere by Screen Snooze » Blog Archive » Internationalization and Google Search Results

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:33:34 +0000

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Comment on Google isn’t Google everywhere by Felix

Felix — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:37:59 +0000

Just in reference to the Shakespeare search on the British and the German portal. Google’s book department shows three recommendations on both. The first two being “Hamlet” and “Macbeth” on both - but then surprise - the third recommendation on the British side is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” while on the German one it is “Shakespeare’s dramatische Werke” (trans. “Shakespeare’s Dramatic Works”). “A midsummer Night’s Dream” is amongst the most popular plays in the UK - while it is far less prominent in Germany.

Comment on Google isn’t Google everywhere by Internationalization and Google Search Results · New York Articles

Internationalization and Google Search Results · New York Articles — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:17:08 +0000

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