Alanz Eyes

English speaking world becoming American speaking?

9 comments February 9th, 2006

I have a problem. (No, not that kind of problem!) My problem is that a great percentage of the blog audience is American, and Americans spell… well, they spell American English. This is very different to the Queen’s English, which most of the rest of the English speaking world speak. As a result of this, a Queen’s English blog like mine is not going to be found as much as an American’s English blog, due to the differences in the spelling of various search phrases.

For example, what if I write a post that uses a key word of ‘organisation’, as spelt with Queen’s English. American English spells it as ‘organization’. In fact, there are many words that the Americans use a z for, instead of an s.

Google Desktop vs 3.0

12 comments February 9th, 2006

Over here I predicted:

…within the next 12 months, we are going to see the introduction of a global network-based operating system (OS) that will allow the provision of all services - and more - that you are currently used to. Storage space, applications, games, multimedia and the internet will all be available via this single OS.

I also referred to a Google OS over here.