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Check out Google's doodle commemorating Turing's birthday. http://www.google.co.nz/ http://www.google.co.nz/

• excuse-me 14y ago
  Why .nz? .co.uk I could understand, .com ,being the main site, would be an honour, even .de would be subtly ironic - but I can't see the connection with kiwis Does each Google fiefdom get to do it's own toys without the express command of the chocolate factory?
  • TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    New Zealand is ahead of the US and UK. Google's Doodles are timed by local time and locality. So NZ gets them before the US does. EDIT: Actually, it's quite interesting to look at Google's page about doodles. Most of the doodles will never be seen by you, since they are country-specific.
    • excuse-me 14y ago
      I see, although it does leave the question - if New Zealand is in the future why do they have Hobbits?
      • pyre 14y ago
        "All this has happened before, and all this will happen again." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
        • excuse-me 14y ago
          Yes I remember you saying that !
  • dbaupp 14y ago
    Other than the timing differences that TazeTSchnitzel describes, SquareWheel might be from NZ, so .nz is their default Google landing page.
    • SquareWheel 14y ago
      I am not, it was based on timezone.