The first thing I do when I come across a site that tries to speak my language? I switch it back to english.
Localization makes sense when you're a shopping site aiming at mom & dad and non-techies.
For technical services (pretty much all SaaS) the translations usually turn out so terrible that everyone turns them off. Also good luck googling for the solution to a problem in any other than the primary language of the site...
Localization makes sense when you're a shopping site aiming at mom & dad and non-techies.
For technical services (pretty much all SaaS) the translations usually turn out so terrible that everyone turns them off. Also good luck googling for the solution to a problem in any other than the primary language of the site...