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Comments (6)
Well, informational of navigational queries can be answered with worldwide results. When searching for facts and figures, US results, or Dutch, or South African, etc. can be better than UK results. But transactional queries on the hand... Nonetheless, i would be more happy when information i search for is local or at least country based, unless my searchquery is in another language.
Ma 24 aug 2009, 09:26
@Dennis when looking for a restaurant when I'm in London I don't expect to get results from South Africa :)
Ma 24 aug 2009, 09:31
@bas I agree, search queries with 'restaurant' in it (maybe in combination with location) are transactional if you ask me.
Ma 24 aug 2009, 09:34
I am one of the biggest noise makers when it comes to #ukserps Plenty of searches based on intent are broken, for example "Local Restaurant" the "local" keyword should act almost as an operator to define region specific results.
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/rishil/blog/2009/08/21/why_i_kicked_up_a_fuss_re...
Ma 24 aug 2009, 10:43
I understand Google's predicament to a degree. Many UK companies use .com domains - the UK price comparison market is dominated by .com domain names.
Yet Google should be able to determine a company's geographic market quite easily.
Ma 24 aug 2009, 13:29
The SERPS in the UK where fine before the change. To be honest, even with the change, shouldn't any query be bouncing off the local Google datacenter anyway to return results, so technically they shouldn't have an issue with delivering local results back for a query.
Unless they have gone and changed what the local DC index now. I doubt the USA see UK results when they perform searches?
@barry, i would think the UK companies would use local hosting for those websites, therefore they should naturally appear for UK queries, but i'm not sure a US result with a .com should rank, or if they've placed less importance on that in the UK now.
Ma 24 aug 2009, 17:16