YAGG: Google Japan Scrambled Results
April 12, 2009
Network World reported the Google Blogoscoped story about “Google Japan Bug Showed Gibberish Results” here. For me, the key sentence in the news story was:
According to sources cited by Asiajin.com, the garbled pages sent to Japanese users (and some users of other languages) did not have a correct UTF8 character encoding…
Is this Yet Another Google Glitch? Hard to say but apparently some of the Google users in Japan thought the results were in Turkish.
Stephen Arnold, April 12, 2009