pardo - 8:45 pm on Feb 22, 2005 (gmt 0)

We're running a web directory with most of the content in english. Website is hosted in the Netherlands and a .com domainname.

Historically we received most of the google traffic from the .com domain but recently a major change have been completed with by far many many leads from google.co.uk

I suspect that the Allegra update has everything to do with running different databases on different locations in stead of the old 1 database moved over many different datacenters.

Analysing our log files day by day last weeks I see results vary for different countries...

I think a relevant move and smart move by google and good in the user's perspective. It also is a signal that local search will be more important now and in the future.

Any thought on this view...?