Tag: rednano

  • A good reason to localize: two killed over sms error

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Maybe rednano should try scare tactics. Localisation could have saved the lives of two people in Turkey (via Gizmodo): The surreal mistake happened because the ex-husband’s cellphone didn’t have an specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter “ı” or closed i. While “i” is available in all phones in Turkey—where…

  • Superfluous search

    Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I might have been mistaken when I said rednano was superfluous or even redundant, because that implies it duplicates what something else already does. Apparently, when you do a search on rednano for banks in Singapore, the websites of UOB, DBS, POSB and OCBC don’t turn up on the first few…

  • Rednano’s shepherd’s pie vs Google’s shepherd’s pie

    Free photo of Shepherd’s Pie, courtesy of Creative Commons search on Flickr – photo by Andy Ciordia I thought I might join the fray, notwithstanding that rednano is this week an advertiser right on top of this webpage. So SPH launches rednano with the intention of localising search results when I would have thought the…