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