claus - 2:50 pm on May 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

>> clarify

Uhm... countries with very similar languages, like:

1) English: UK, US, AU, NZ, IE etc.
2) French: CA, FR, several african countries
3) German: DE, CH, AT etc.
4) Spanish: ES, PT, MX, BR etc.

-will be harder for a SE to detect correctly on a generic domain (com, net, org, biz) than, say, a Swedish page on a .co.uk domain.

Ie. a search for "joke"(*) in Swedish language returns these domains in top 100:

- .nu
- .com
- .se <-- Sweden (some of these pages are not in Swedish)
- .fi
- .st
- .eu.int
- .net
- .org
- .dk
- .de
- .at
- .biz
- .id

(*)(means: joke. Non-commercial SERP)