No, I don’t know Bill from Canada…

Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:07 am Posted in Google

and, amazingly enough, the weather for the second largest country in the world isn’t homogeneous either.

I’m so used to Google knowing what I want that this was a bit of a surprise:

Google's understanding of Canadian Weather

Google geo-meteorological search intelligence: fail!

-J

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  1. 1Morten on Sep 22, 2008 at 11:22 am:

    North America works too:
    http://www.google.com/search?q=weather+north+america

  2. 2Jason Birch on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:03 pm:

    … or doesn’t work :)

  3. 3Jason Birch on Sep 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm:

    Interesting… looks like the “weather canada” google search query no longer returns weather results. The “weather north america” one does though.

  4. 4Mark Ireland on Sep 24, 2008 at 10:44 am:

    No wonder the polar ice caps are melting if it’s 17 degrees up there. Mind you, it didn’t say which Mon it was talking about.

  5. 5ChrisW on Oct 10, 2008 at 3:32 am:

    I dunno. What are you complaining about? It’s bound to be partly sunny and/or cloudy and/or raining *somewhere* in Canada, eh? In fact, based on my summer holiday in Vancouver/Victoria this year, it’s likely to do that all in one day in BC!

    Google geo-meteorological search intelligence: spot on!