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Google.com – all your weather is in Celsius now. Boo.

Did Google arbitrarily decide we should start living on the Metric system?  The “OneBox for Weather” seems to think so:

What is a Google OneBox?  The post here explains: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-onebox-results.html It is basically a shortcut search that returns a snippet of data, like weather or movietimes.  It is really cool when it works correctly.  However, I am stuck with Celsius for the weather OneBox – which makes this useless for me as I can’t do the Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion faster than just browsing to wunderground.com.

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This entry was written by Ed Laczynski and posted on November 2, 2008 at 11:22 am and filed under google, weather. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Mark S.
    Posted November 2, 2008 at 11:55 am | Permalink

    are you sure you aren’t using a foreign proxy? works just fine for me. It’s currently 42 degrees Fahrenheit in NYC

  2. ed
    Posted November 5, 2008 at 11:34 pm | Permalink

    I thought that might be happening, but I get the same thing from two different networks (Verizon dedicated at work and FIOS at home).

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