Why does it show in search as .co.uk and not .com

.co.uk and .com

[Shaundm]

Hi
I have a website on www.example.co.uk and www.example.com. There is a link on the .co.uk which forwards you to the .com page.

However when you search in google for Example, it brings up the .co.uk page, and does not recognize the.com page at all. I eventually want to get rid of the .co.uk page and only use the .com page, but don't want to if my page doesn't come up in search engines?

Any ideas how to get my .com page recognised, or even instead of the .co.uk?

Incidentally, my site is hosted on Tiscali web space, and my web provider shows my web page name as www.example.com.

Cheers people...

[edited by: jatar_k at 3:33 pm (utc) on Aug. 7, 2005]
[edit reason] removed specifics [/edit]

[mack]

With Google it comes down to where your site is hosted and not only the domain extension you choose.

Does this happen only with pages from the Uk selected or with entire web option?

Mack.

[Shaundm]

Its hosted on Tiscali which I understand is a UK site, they are my broadband provider & give you free webspace, hence why its posted there.

When you search for <snip> in both 'the web' or 'UK', it appears top in both pages, however the web adress that it shows both times is the .co.uk version. For some reason the .com address doesn't appear at all within the search engine.

Could it be something to do with that it thinks the .com is a duplicate site? What If I stopped using the .co.uk totally, and hoped that it picked up the .com page instead?
My only worry about doing that is that at present it doesn't pick up the .com page at all on the search engine and don't want the site to be totally removed.

Thanks
Shaun

[edited by: DaveN at 11:33 am (utc) on Aug. 17, 2005]
[edit reason] read the TOS ! [/edit]