philicious - 9:17 pm on Aug 22, 2004 (gmt 0)

Exellent replies thanks. This reinforces what I was thinking about Japan, and the fact that the Google option is searching for "pages in Japanese". The whole idea is otherwise quite ridiculous.

For example, would Google then just ignore all the multi-lingual pages of a site hosted in New Zealand but is targeting China, Japan, Germany, Brazil etc? I think not.

What about tradtional Chinese and targeting Hong Kong and Taiwan separately but with the same content? Would that be a case for country-specific hosting/nameservers?