[hencq]

Yeah, hardly scientific, but it's at least anecdotal evidence that there's some room for improvement. Like you I wonder how different the results are with google.ru though. I live in Ireland, but sometimes do queries in Dutch. Google.nl often gives different and much better results for those than google.ie.

Also slightly off-topic: I appreciate that English isn't the author's first language, but, wow, that was painful to read. I feel his point might come across a bit stronger without sentences like "Or perhaps a painkiller should be administered to dispense the suffering of google as we strike with the mercykill?" or "Perhaps it is time for google to crash down on the matress of bitter disappointment as well, a la black swan."

[TomorrowMars]

I enjoyed the originality and wit. In Russian language, mercykill strike you!