glengara - 10:13 am on Sep 26, 2007 (gmt 0)

What's new in all this is that for generic terms G is boosting "local" pages in the "web search" results and it now depends mostly on the strength of the local competition how well "foreign" pages will feature.

For competitive terms, in English language Gs we'll see far fewer sites/pages being able to achieve a "global" top ten, and in non-English language Gs far fewer "foreign" multi-language sites/pages, IMO.

Seems to me G is pushing the use of CCTLDs without giving us the main reason, the increasing regionalisation of "web search" results based on TLD/IP....