OptiRex - 1:13 pm on Dec 7, 2004 (gmt 0)

joeking - Can't ask for better evidence than that can we? Does anyone else have such an overwhelming fact?

Like petehall I am quite surprised and I have to admit that I have deliberately steered clear of US based servers with the background thought that our sites may disappear from .co.uk. As it is all our top ranked Google.co.uk sites are all .coms hosted in the UK and they're not moving anywhere!

As an associated question, and I know this was brought up about a year ago, however is there any really good reason why Google.com could not display the results like other Googles and show results from the USA only?

Of course there would be still be loads of sites shown in the results which were simply hosted there however it would certainly be of benefit to ourselves, and I suspect many others who trade or supply widgets internationally, since at the present time my top ranked results are above all my US customer web sites consequently we spend a lot of time filtering and forwarding enquiries etc which, theoretically, we would not receive since we should only be displayed in the www results.

And yes, we do have each country's contact page listed but, as you well know, surfers rarely read, they just click, send and expect an immediate response...

Or am I chasing up a blind alley here?

Do Google not want to do this or have they actually experimented with it and it did not work?