[sschueller]

Lots of Swiss German coming from Google lately. Zöpfli, Brötli and now Guetzli.

I'm still hoping for a Google Now that understands Swiss German :)

[cimnine]

There's a huge Google lab in Zurich [1], probably that's why.

[1] https://careers.google.com/locations/zurich/

[m_mueller]

I'm a bit sad but I guess I could have seen it coming ;-).

https://github.com/muellermichel/guetzli

[s3nnyy]

Although Zurich's software engineers are as expensive as those in the Bay area, Google employs 1500 of them and they bought a new building next to the main train station to hire hundreds of new ML / AI experts.

(Full disclosure: I am a programmer and I try to match programmers with Zurich's startups for a living.)

So, if you want to move to Zurich, you find my e-mail address in my HN-handle. Read more about Switzerland in my semi-famous blogpost "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in tech": https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)

[post_meridiem]

I'm Swiss German and don't understand half of the Swiss German dialects. Swiss German must be the ultimate hard case for machine translation.

[Cyph0n]

I'm assuming it's because the work originated in their R&D labs in Zurich?