Does the Google homepage look the same in every country?
The Google homepage changes its language for every country (unless you have another language preference defined in your browser), but they also sometimes change the design. For instance, Google Hong Kong lets users to switch straight to iGoogle via a blue box below the search box… and iGoogle will then be pre-configured with things like YouTube videos, Gmail, Google News and more. Google Korea by default comes in a slighty different, more graphical design, including icons that are animated when you hover over them: Google was also seen experimenting with a different homepage in China, though that one was never live by default. The default Google China homepage (also accessible via the super-short domain name g.cn) too contains one difference, though: auto-completion. Usually to get auto-completion for the English homepage you need to visit Google Suggest, but in China, the feature is enabled by default (and also makes it easier to type in Hanyu-Pinyin, which will then be transliterat
The Google homepage changes its language for every country (unless you have another language preference defined in your browser), but they also sometimes change the design. For instance, Google Hong Kong lets users to switch straight to iGoogle via a blue box below the search box… and iGoogle will then be pre-configured with things like YouTube videos, Gmail, Google News and more. Google Korea by default comes in a slighty different, more graphical design, including icons that are animated when you hover over them: Google was also seen experimenting with a different homepage in China, though that one was never live by default. The default Google China homepage (also accessible via the super-short domain name g.cn) too contains one difference, though: auto-completion. Usually to get auto-completion for the English homepage you need to visit Google Suggest, but in China, the feature is enabled by default (and also makes it easier to type in Hanyu-Pinyin, which will then be transliterat
