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https://www.google.com/search?q=how+did+walt+disney+die

That's cool, haven't seen this one before. Thanks for sharing :) Played around with it a bit, and it seems to have pretty good coverage; got everyone from Frederick Douglas to Dijkstra.

yesterday for the first time I noticed the inline translation e.g. "cat in portuguese" -> gato.

Not sure if it's new.

Google has an interesting localization issue when it comes to Canada. If you ask it for someone's height, it gives it in metric, but everyone here uses imperial for body related measurements. The same goes for area, I hear acre a lot more than hectare, but "How big is disneyland" gives me 65ha.

There must be a name for this syndrome - tendency of US-based developers to over-exoticize foreign places, taking at face value all official units of measure, languages, etc.

When it comes to grammar, the term hypercorrection is typically used. Seems like it could be applied here as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection

yep , it works , i tried :"how tall is the eiffet tower?" gave me the result ( ~=324 meters).

"What is PI?" shows me a calculator with the result.