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| English pronouns, for non-native English speakers, are one of the
hardest rules to learn. Google apparently let JavaScript speaking Asians
also write the English version of the tutorial for merchants. Look at
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I have a google checkout thing - single item "Buy it now"
buttons - but need to create a real shopping cart. Starting 2-years ago I wrote to Google about the incomplete nature of the shopping cart tutorial on their website. Numerous (defensive) individuals with names like Ganesh, or Ramish, etc. wasted my time - but no one could resolve this obvious problem. eBay provides the seller with carrier calculated shipping. Google only offers a "Buy It Now" button with fixed cost shipping. Unbelievable! An oversight that is incredible since Google could be the eBay auction killer; instead it is stuck with a childish "make code" page for single purchase buttons. Google's tutorial is incredibly bad considering this is a billion dollar software corporation. It is obviously the work of too many geeks without anyone who was a native speaker of English. The writing would cause any college freshman English composition teacher to scream. No one writing for Google seems confident enough with English to use a pronoun. Without skill in using pronouns they repeat the same phrases such as "Google Checkout", shopping cart, etc. The explanations of code are unrelated to an overall understanding of the complete solution a merchant is seeking, and only serve to generate more and more confusion. They discuss JavaScript, then show HTML portions, CSS, form post, or XML portions for Carrier Based Shipping Calculations as if the author was writing definitions for his or her peer group without regard for the merchant. Nowhere in the Google tutorial is there code that is complete enough to actually work to get the FedEx Ground shipping rate! NOWHERE! So is all this a scam that forces me to pay a third party software developer just to make carrier based shipping calculations actually work? Imagine if eBay required sellers to upload their own shipping calculators! Google could have been the eBay auction killer. Instead their merchant services are a joke. And if you send them feedback about this bad technical writing the geeky kids in Asia have no clue what you are talking about! |
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