Google comes to SA

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Tks Stepper

Flippit:

Xa undiqonda, bhala phantsi. Ndifuna ukubona bangaganani abantu ababhalayo isiXhosa.

 

[Flippit]

Oh, ja, thanks Stepper - sorry I'm still learning...

 

[stepper]

Nolofalletso: Dibrowsareng tse ngata o tobetsa RETURN KEY ho na le hore o tobetse bathene ya ho setjha.

Thanx google for the effort but the RETURN KEY? I know while many pupils in primary schools are taught the return key is ENTER KEY and they wouldn't know what is the RETURN KEY.

 

[Clipse]

creating a virtual host as google.co.za doesnt make it local for us in South Africa. That is still hosted overseas. Simply look at a tracert to google.co.za and you will see this aswell.

Tracing route to google.co.za [216.239.57.99]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 578 ms 484 ms 625 ms wblv-146-192-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.192.1]

2 688 ms 531 ms 547 ms wblv-ip-er-1-fe-11-1-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196
.43.10.138]
3 750 ms 797 ms 875 ms lon-ip-dir-telecity-pos-6-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [
196.43.9.50]
4 766 ms 750 ms 781 ms pos2-1.cr02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.52.17]
5 687 ms * 656 ms ge2-3.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.12.54]
6 547 ms * 594 ms 195.66.224.125
7 500 ms 594 ms 562 ms 216.239.47.133
8 641 ms 578 ms 469 ms 216.239.46.137
9 * 562 ms 625 ms 216.239.46.53
10 515 ms 516 ms 547 ms 216.239.46.44
11 672 ms 609 ms 688 ms 216.239.47.129
12 547 ms 562 ms 672 ms 64.233.175.133
13 1031 ms 1110 ms 1031 ms 64.233.175.89
14 1172 ms 1016 ms 1094 ms 216.239.49.170
15 1328 ms 1109 ms 1063 ms 216.239.49.97
16 1031 ms 1000 ms 1109 ms 216.239.57.99

Ignore the ping replies as I did this while downloading and doing various other stuff. Just the IP's should give you the general idea its hosted overseas.

 

[fergus]

All about bork

Bork, bork, bork is ripping off some accent, but I can't tell which. Irish maybe?

Bork is actually the Swedish Chef's version of English. You can read about the Swedish Chef here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Chef. Quite funny actually.

Then theres a program that translates English into bork which you can download from here: http://www.almac.co.uk/chef/chef/chef.html. Check out what this page looks like in bork. This is classic http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialec...d.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=156735#post156735

You also say something is 'borked' when it is broken or messed up.

 

[Celemasiko]

Uh "pressure" is an understatement. Google will gain 90%+ market share very quickly.

as everywhere...*fg*

 

[ic]

ITWeb 2005-01-18: "Google SA �a good sign'"