US only searches

great regional filtering

[caine]

Doing some research on a couple of issues, and i am trying to look at US info only.

Does anybody know how, never even thought about it before, just thought that .com weighted US sites more heavily. However i am not seeing that in the research that i am trying to undertake.

Any idea's on how to check US site's on US host's only via G?

[ciml]

At present, I don't know of a way.

It's possible that there will be a boost at some point for US sites when people search from within the US. I'm hoping for a global Google as the default.

[rfgdxm1]

Unless this is some SooperSekrit feature only the folks in the Googleplex know, doesn't seem possible.

[caine]

It certainly would be an excellant resource if it did exist.

I've always played the english-global angle, never thought about a website that is purely targetting the U.S. only.

i.e. large company with multiple locations around the world - targetting by sales area for a variety of reasons (beyond scope of this thread), trying to control who of the Google searchers goes where, especially the .com which probably gets x.times as much traffic from the world populas of googlers, than the regionals put together (can't verify this - i don't work for G!).

[anallawalla]

Any idea's on how to check US site's on US host's only via G?

That would need access to Google's whois vault and even then it would be partially inaccurate because of the growing number of anonymous domain owners.

I found something new (to me) while checking out this thread.

We know to use &gl=us to see US-based Adwords results. I tried &whois=us and I got the same results (for Adwords).

Compare Default search [google.com] with whois=us search [google.com]. The former gives me about 3,190,000 results while the latter gives about 2,660,000. Changing the string suffix to &gl=us gives me about 3,190,000 results. The first and the last (3,190,000) show very similar serps but the Adwords are localised differently.

Changing the whois to uk or au doesn't seem to change the total results, but making it =us does.

What is the whois=us serp showing?

[ciml]

I don't see UK sites being pushed out for gl=us or whois=us but when I append &meta=cr%3DcountryUS to the search results URL for something local to me I see no .co.uk domains. Some .com domains are missing as well.

I wonder if the missing .com domains are hosted in the UK. It looks likely at first glance.

[rfgdxm1]

Curious ciml. I just tried that with a search where one of my sites should come up high. The site is a .ws domain hosted on a US server. The site doesn't appear in the SERP.