phranque - 11:27 am on Sep 20, 2012 (gmt 0)

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-start-multilingual-site.html [googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com]

If you want to reach all speakers of a particular language around the world, you probably don't want to limit yourself to a specific geographic location. This is known as language targeting, and in this case, you don't want to use the geographic target tool.