A few more notes.

Today, there was another German summary of the situation by KerLeone in Mosaikum.

There was also something related in Microdoc News, about the 74 Google country interfaces (click on the title Chunking Google Results to see the rest of the text).

It seems that Google never actually gives you more than 998 results, even if it announces more.

It’s possible, according to Derek Thornton, a technical translator who lives in Germany, on FLEFO, that each of the country interfaces simply presents results based on the past behaviour of its users. This is probably something I ought to know already – I am not an expert on Google. It would mean that if I look up an English phrase in Google, the results will be affected by past searches of English in Google in Germany. Continue reading →

A few more notes.

Today, there was another German summary of the situation by KerLeone in Mosaikum.

There was also something related in Microdoc News, about the 74 Google country interfaces (click on the title Chunking Google Results to see the rest of the text).

It seems that Google never actually gives you more than 998 results, even if it announces more.

It’s possible, according to Derek Thornton, a technical translator who lives in Germany, on FLEFO, that each of the country interfaces simply presents results based on the past behaviour of its users. This is probably something I ought to know already – I am not an expert on Google. It would mean that if I look up an English phrase in Google, the results will be affected by past searches of English in Google in Germany. Continue reading →

I was in Donzdorf near the Swabian Jura on Saturday and Sunday and saw this insect I have never seen before. It looks like a humming bird, hovering in front of this catmint plant. The orange blur is the wings.

It is called a humming-bird hawk moth in English and Taubenschwänzchen in German. It comes from the south every year – Donzdorf is further south than here and it has been really hot in Germany for weeks now – it overwinters as an adult but few survive north of the Alps. It’s a moth, but diurnal. There are better pictures amd more information in English on this site. And here are pictures and text on a German site.
A Finnish site shows a distribution map.

I was in Donzdorf near the Swabian Jura on Saturday and Sunday and saw this insect I have never seen before. It looks like a humming bird, hovering in front of this catmint plant. The orange blur is the wings.

It is called a humming-bird hawk moth in English and Taubenschwänzchen in German. It comes from the south every year – Donzdorf is further south than here and it has been really hot in Germany for weeks now – it overwinters as an adult but few survive north of the Alps. It’s a moth, but diurnal. There are better pictures amd more information in English on this site. And here are pictures and text on a German site.
A Finnish site shows a distribution map.

Jeremy Smith, whose log I mentioned earlier, has got some way with his multilingual blogging glossary (I am reminded by Blogalization). Languages are English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Galician and German.

Blogalization also mentions Armin Grewe, a German living in England who maintains a list of ex-pat bloggers. Armin was interviewed by Stuart Mudie here.

Jeremy Smith, whose log I mentioned earlier, has got some way with his multilingual blogging glossary (I am reminded by Blogalization). Languages are English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Galician and German.

Blogalization also mentions Armin Grewe, a German living in England who maintains a list of ex-pat bloggers. Armin was interviewed by Stuart Mudie here.