steveb - 2:52 am on Jan 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

The searching on the various .it .de .fr regional Googles is kinda fascinating. When looking at the searches I am most familar with, both for the web or "Pages francophones" searches, the results seem to be usually definitely Austin-based. However, SOME pages that are inexplicably dropped on .com are showing on the regionals. However, some pages that are inexplicably dropped on .com are NOT showing on the regionals.

Then, and this is the key thing for me, in my broad niche (including my narrower one), most super-competitive one word search are exactly the same, while others are fairly different (though not drastically).