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Was that landing page written by Google India team !

by ab_testing 6mo ago

connorgurney 6mo ago
Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…
- echoangle 6mo ago
  It doesn’t really tell you where the copywriters were from but you notice that the locale of the page is Indian because the numbers are given in crore.
  - throwaway290 6mo ago
    if this was a few years ago I would even say here on "hacker" news we could probably notice the indian locale in the damn URL and save an entire subthread of racial offtopic
- SanjayMehta 6mo ago
  [flagged]
  - lazide 6mo ago
    Crores are pretty distinctive.
    - SanjayMehta 6mo ago
      That's coming from Google, the racism is coming from the commentators. I have no problem with racism; I have a problem with hypocrisy.
      - lazide 6mo ago
        How is it racism when it is literally written by/in Indians? As in literally has it as the locale and uses terms only really used in India? You might as well be complaining someone notes ‘it’s Chinese’ when something written in Simplified Chinese by the CCP gets posted?
        SanjayMehta 6mo ago
        Good grief, read the comments up top, not talking about Google's page.
        lazide 6mo ago
        Mind linking to any particularly problematic ones? When I scanned through before making my earlier comment, I didn’t see anything.
- bobsmooth 6mo ago
  "Gmail blocks over 10 crore phishing attempts every day."
thaumasiotes 6mo ago
Well, it was written to target Indian English. You can find the American version of the page at https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ .
bedatadriven 6mo ago
Uh yeah, the locale in the link is specifically an Indian locale. If you find it it disorienting you can change en_in to en_us: https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/
- FreePalestine1 6mo ago
  The confusing thing is that googling "google advanced protection program" takes you to the en_in locale, even if you are in the US. An American has no clue what a crore is, so it is just an SEO failure on Google's part, which is funny. I didn't know there was an en_us equivalent to the page when I googled the topic.
  - ErroneousBosh 6mo ago
    > An American has no clue what a crore is Really? It's ten million of something, or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars in money. You might also see "lakh" which is one hundred thousand of something, or about $1100 when it's used to describe money. Now you know.
    - nsenifty 6mo ago
      > or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars $110,000 US dollars
      - ErroneousBosh 6mo ago
        Oops, you're right. Don't do currency conversions in your head, folks.
    - sumedh 6mo ago
      India really needs to adopt millions and billions.
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Was that landing page written by Google India team !

connorgurney 6mo ago

Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…

echoangle 6mo ago
It doesn’t really tell you where the copywriters were from but you notice that the locale of the page is Indian because the numbers are given in crore.
- throwaway290 6mo ago
  if this was a few years ago I would even say here on "hacker" news we could probably notice the indian locale in the damn URL and save an entire subthread of racial offtopic
SanjayMehta 6mo ago
[flagged]
- lazide 6mo ago
  Crores are pretty distinctive.
  - SanjayMehta 6mo ago
    That's coming from Google, the racism is coming from the commentators. I have no problem with racism; I have a problem with hypocrisy.
    - lazide 6mo ago
      How is it racism when it is literally written by/in Indians? As in literally has it as the locale and uses terms only really used in India? You might as well be complaining someone notes ‘it’s Chinese’ when something written in Simplified Chinese by the CCP gets posted?
      - SanjayMehta 6mo ago
        Good grief, read the comments up top, not talking about Google's page.
        lazide 6mo ago
        Mind linking to any particularly problematic ones? When I scanned through before making my earlier comment, I didn’t see anything.
bobsmooth 6mo ago
"Gmail blocks over 10 crore phishing attempts every day."

thaumasiotes 6mo ago

Well, it was written to target Indian English. You can find the American version of the page at https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ .

bedatadriven 6mo ago

Uh yeah, the locale in the link is specifically an Indian locale. If you find it it disorienting you can change en_in to en_us: https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/

FreePalestine1 6mo ago
The confusing thing is that googling "google advanced protection program" takes you to the en_in locale, even if you are in the US. An American has no clue what a crore is, so it is just an SEO failure on Google's part, which is funny. I didn't know there was an en_us equivalent to the page when I googled the topic.
- ErroneousBosh 6mo ago
  > An American has no clue what a crore is Really? It's ten million of something, or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars in money. You might also see "lakh" which is one hundred thousand of something, or about $1100 when it's used to describe money. Now you know.
  - nsenifty 6mo ago
    > or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars $110,000 US dollars
    - ErroneousBosh 6mo ago
      Oops, you're right. Don't do currency conversions in your head, folks.
  - sumedh 6mo ago
    India really needs to adopt millions and billions.

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