[briandear]

> Google rightly defaults to Arabic

It’s not “rightly.” If I go to google.com, I expect google.com not the country-specific version. If, for example, I wanted Mexican google, I’d explicitly type google.com.mx etc. It’s a royal pain that google doesn’t respect the user’s intent and instead infers a language based on geography.

[fistynuts]

I'd say you are the exception here. Most people type google.com to get to Google, wherever they are.