Google can't understand languages
The thing that really irritates me about Google is their inability to get the user's preferred language right.
For example, I am logged into gmail, with my language set to English, I do a Google search, and Google show me the results in Taglog (when I am in the Philippines) or whichever language is spoken where my IP address is registered. In fact, Tagalog is not even the language spoken by the majority of people in the Philippines.
When I signed up for Google+, I was in Manila. I could find no way to get to Google+ in English. I tried starting from gmail (logged in as English), google.com, google.co.uk, etc. Every time google+ was delivered in Tagalog because my IP address where my notebook was located was in Manila. Finally, I had to get a Tagalog language speaker to stand behind me and translate, until we reached the point where I could change the language to English.
*** To this day, when I view Google+, there is still Tagalog sprinkled around the page.***
For this reason, I stick to Facebook.
Similarly, I tend to go to Yahoo for news ... and increasingly for searches, because Yahoo respects my language choice.
I travel a lot and I know so many people who hate this thing with Google. It has been going on for years - and in the days when you could still email Google they basically told me they don't care.
As much as we grouse about Microsoft, they did great things for internationalizing languages used in software, etc.
Come on Google - stop alienating your users.
