WebWalla - 9:53 pm on Nov 7, 2006 (gmt 0)

asher02 - she is referring to the server location for UK sites, when searching in the local UK Google. She is saying that if no .uk tld is available (.com sites) then they have to rely on the server location to determine if the site is a UK one or not. Obviously, here the server location has an effect because UK-based sites are given a bias in the UK Google.

But in google.com there is no such bias, and UK located sites (and sites elsewhere) compete on equal terms with sites located in the US.