Ouch.<p>I can't help but think using the Swedish Google to search for Russian is hardly a perfect example of science here.<p>Why isn't he using google.ru? I have no idea if it would return different results, but his current article doesn't prove as much as he thinks it does.<p>(Although, Library of Congress? Seriously?)
Great article about language as the last man standing against globalism. If you ever have to manage the translation of a piece of software into a different language, you will find two kinds:
One in western chars where you can get a feeling about the translators work and one in different chars like russian, japanese, chinese, arabic where you don't get a ghost of idea what is written there.<p>For search engines this is much harder: if you don't employ a sufficient numbers of native speakers for these languages, you will never get sufficient results. All other employees can't help you out. Translation software is useless, if you don't know how to weight the possible results from the cultural canon.
A cyrillic reader expects to find the russian state library on top when looking for a lib, not the library of congress.
Most of all, google cannot find information in my blog (it is in russion and it is Lifejournal one) for a long time while yandex still can (Yandex Blogs).<p>Google search is quite forgetful. After certain amount of time you just cannot find something you need.
Well comparing a search for a russian word in the US version of Google vs the same search in Yandex, this are not unexpected results... He should compare to the russian version of Google.
Europeans have invented PHP, Linux, Python, C++, Ruby on Rails, Opera browser, Skype etc.<p>should promote european better search engines more , otherwise average-level product makers like Google and Microsoft will take over the world