Sometimes I think Google may be a little too smart for its own good. Here in The Netherlands, if you try to go to www.google.com you are instead redirected to the local www.google.nl. Thanks, Google, but that's not what I asked for. Yes, geocoding is cool, but when I want to go to the main English site, I expect to be taken there. If I had wanted a Dutch search engine, I could have found it easily enough.
After about a week of being irritated with this, I stopped to scan through the Google home page. Google pages aren't that busy, of course, but when the words come at you in a language that you don't understand, even a minimalist page can be intimidating.
Finally, I noticed a little link at the bottom for Google in English. Clicking on this restores www.google.com to its normal English self. Only with a bit of a twist. Now there's a link to undo this change and take me back to the Dutch version.
