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Can we please have an easy link (in English) that tells us what the cool pix are on different days? Also, can we have access to the pix from other areas of the world?

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Google doesn't allow me to choose a language.

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Where can I find an address to lodge a complaint?

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Google Scholar should allow us to actually read the research and not limit us to abstracts only or a 2 sentence description.

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ORIGINAL: shallowdeep

Some of these may actually be at least partially rectifiable:

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Can we please have an easy link (in English) that tells us what the cool pix are on different days? Also, can we have access to the pix from other areas of the world?

Yes, see Google Doodles.


This doesn't tell me what is on TODAY's google - only for special days. Also, when I put my cursor on the doodle, it comes up in Korean. I don't even know what to look for, what to search for on google because they won't let me read it. It's all in Korea even though my preference is in English and even though I'm on Google.com (not google.co.kr).

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Google doesn't allow me to choose a language.

You should be able to set an interface language on the Google Preferences page.


Yeah, I have English set up as my preference. It doesn't work. It still comes up as Korean any time I re-start my computer. Everyone I know who is an expat has the same problem - and it is the same problem all over the world.

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Where can I find an address to lodge a complaint?

There are product-specific support pages, each with a forum. Some products also have other feedback mechanisms, e.g. Chrome's feedback page, Gmail's suggestions page, etc.

That's helpful, thanks... I didn't see where I could actually lodge a complaint, and my questions aren't on their list. But I'll keep looking. (This is not the first time I've put these questions up somewhere).

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Google Scholar should allow us to actually read the research and not limit us to abstracts only or a 2 sentence description.

Google Scholar does link to full articles where possible, but the underlying issue is that many academic publications are not free. Providing a centralized index of multiple databases is one thing, but violating copyright (Google Books debates aside) or shelling out for everyone in the world to have full access to sources behind paywalls aren't particularly realistic options for Google.

Fair enough. I wonder if there is a way to link through my university, though. I can use my school's library system, but it's in Korean! If I could link via google (in English), it would make life much easier. I do use the ERIC system, but it often doesn't have what I need in other languages (like Spanish/Russian, etc.). This one is no big deal, but I figured I could ask!


On the original topic: What Google could do better is a pretty broad topic, and there are many different segments and perspectives to answer that question from. Are end users the only view you're interested in? Advertisers, public policy makers, privacy advocates, content rights owners, company shareholders, internet service providers, web developers, Android device manufacturers, various governments – all of them are going to have different ideas, sometimes opposed, about how Google could "improve" things. Also, Google is involved in a fairly wide range of different areas, each with some of their own issues. Are you focusing on any particular aspect of their business? If not, it might make sense to think about narrowing it down some.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing more improvements with stuff like this from them: What we're driving at. Probably not one of their core competencies, and not one with an immediate market… but still more interesting than another evolutionary improvement to search, at least to me.