If you login to your Google account by going to google.com and signing in you will notice a navigation bar at the top left of your screen.

If you are on google.com, the mail is shown as Gmail.

If you are on google.co.uk, the mail is shown as Google Mail.

For google.de, it’s Google Mail.

For google.fi, it’s Gmail again.

The big G has been making some efforts to make the navigation bar at the top consistent no matter what language you’re using.

I will give credit where it’s due because to make anything work the same across all languages is a nearly impossible task; it requires tons and tons of code writing.

One wonders if Google will someday follow Yahoo’s way of doing things, internationally speaking. For a very long time Yahoo has had similar-but-distinctively-separate web sites for different countries. Yahoo.com is different from uk.yahoo.com is different from in.yahoo.com and so on.

But maybe Google’s got the better idea of going for a consistent one-for-all?