Woz - 7:32 am on Aug 18, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hehe, yes I remember, something about, no, I won't spill the beans. ;)

Actually, this whole situation of determining regional focus of a sight has me shaking my head in a lot of cases. From your list of what the eingines are doing:-

>1. Have a TLD for the country i.e. .co.jp
Well, perhaps most of the time.

>2. Get your 'Japanese' site listed in dmoz in a Japanese regional category
OK, this one I agree with, well, most of the time, but it should be expanded to reflect all major directories. Perhaps also country specific directories.

>3. get the tld/ site hosted/ on a nameserver in Japan.
Well, this one I have a lot of issues with. For (hypothetical) example, I live in, say, Mexico, build a .com about, ummm, Guatamala, but the the best value hosting for my purposes is in, hmmm, India. So I should be list in which country version of the major SEs?

There needs to be a lot of work in determine regional focus of a site based on it's content. But for now, I guess we are stuck with the above.

>Otherwise - its not a Japanese site, is it?
Zachery!

Onya
Woz