Following on from this morning’s curious gmail access problems, I tried to access gmail.google.com from home and found that the page’s text is now appearing in German.
I’m sure I’m in Australia. And I’m sure I don’t have any settings on my work and home Macs and PC that refer to Germany or German.
Does this mean the URL gmail.google.com can no longer be used from anywhere globally?
Or did someone just mess up with the IP address detection script?
As per my previous post, why, when people have used the gmail.google.com URL for so long, would this page not be translated to multiple languages? If I landed on this page without having seen the English version this morning I would have been very baffled.
The mail.google.com site still contains Gmail branding so I’m leaning towards this being caused by a bug rather than a global initiative/re-branding.
Maybe tomorrow I’ll find that page talking at me in Finnish.
[Edit: Just to clarify, I don't mind if gmail/Google Mail needs to be accessed via another URL from now on, I'm just picking on the execution of the change - it is not user friendly]
meine deutsch ist nicht gut
gmail.google.com merrily forwards me to mail.google.com/mail … so I suspect that whatever’s happening is some kind of bug rather than a decision to change.
I’m still randomly having problems. Yesterday I could access gmail.google.com from home, but today from home it shows up with the English version of the message about access restrictions in Germany.
I’m not on a fixed IP address at home so I think that could be the cause of the random choice of activity when I hit the URL.
Ah well, I best try and remember to use mail.google.com from now on (yes, I’m one of those people who actually types URLs in to the address bar because I find it quicker than clicking bookmarks/links/etc).