On Nokia + Microsoft partnership
- People don’t buy Nokia phones to get Symbian; they buy them because they are made by Nokia. Nokia has loyal customers. Far more than Apple has.
- People don’t buy iPhones because they are better; they buy them because they are cool gadgets and make a status statement; (plus they run all the cool stuff).
- People don’t buy Android phones because they are better either; they buy them because they just don’t like Apple more than they hate following the crowd.
- People don’t buy Windows Phones because they are made by Microsoft; they buy them because they know exactly what they want.
Google’s translation of currencies
I often use Google Translate in GMail to translate incoming messages from Swedish to English as my Swedish is not good enough yet.
Here are two screens shots from a message before and after Google’s translation. The price of 149 Kronor has changed during translation to 149 dollars (which today is equivalent to 1084 kronor). The result is silly of course and shows how far from making a sensible translation Google still really is.
Here is the original message:
And here is the message after Google Translated it:
:-)
@google and @bing: how about time dimension?
The web is old enough to contain lots of outdated information. I often click on top search results and find myself reading some article written 10+ years ago.
What I would like to see in Google and/or Bing search, is an indicator of how old the content is.
I know that Google already does this in blog search. But it can also be done for any page because the search engine knows when a page has been indexed for the first time and also knows when the page has been updated. These can be rough indicators of the content’s freshness and I would like to be able to see them before clicking on search results.
