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Changes to the open Internet in Kazakhstan

• justin_vanw 15y ago
  Why can't they still give kazak users the exact same customization? Just redirect them to google.com/?custom=kz, and fix the location detection logic to work with either the domain or that flag. Degrading the search quality for an entire country is just lazy.
  • davecardwell 15y ago
    That functionality already exists, to an extent, with the gl= parameter. Eg. http://www.google.com/search?q=dave+cardwell&gl=kz http://www.google.com/search?q=dave+cardwell&gl=kz http://www.google.com/search?q=dave+cardwell&gl=uk http://www.google.com/search?q=dave+cardwell&gl=uk http://www.google.com/search?q=dave+cardwell&gl=us http://www.google.com/search?q=dave+cardwell&gl=us
  • wladimir 15y ago
    Because they're trying to make a point. I love this about Google. Also, even though it is trivial to do, it is effort unasked for, just to satisfy some politician's power craze. (also I'm pretty sure that later on they will roll back in the customization though a parameter, just not immediately)