john5 - 9:58 pm on Sep 24, 2002 (gmt 0)

My major domain is a .com web site in English. It is hosted here in Germany. I just made some testing and can hardly believe it. The .com pages have better ranking positions on www.google.com than on www.google.de. In one case it is position 17 for .de and 10 for .com and the second is 25 for .com and 32 for .de

The searches were made with a very competitive two keyword combination that is the same in all languages (first and last name of some well known personalities).

This would mean that the domain gets the local boost and not the hosting location. Which would make some sense for Google.