otech - 7:11 am on Feb 21, 2006 (gmt 0)

well, i can tell you in aus the only time we get any MFA sites are when they come from the US.

Over the last year our 'search the web' serps are leaning more and more towards our local sites, and I dont miss any of the old spammy rubbish we used to get.

In Aus, its nowhere near as cut-throat to get to the top of the serps, and when google does us the favour of putting Aussie sites first when searching the web, it makes it all the easier!

You said you were in Switzerland? you should be happy to dont have to compete with the likes of US/UK seo'rs! If our local 'search the web' listings reverted back to the global .com listings, our sites would be lost!

The other great thing about this also, is because there are so fewer searchers in Aus over the US, not many local people bother to make and host MFA sites for Austraian searchers - (they probably go for the US market), leaving our SERPS nice and clean for searching on my nice Acer Ferrari laptop ;-)