.co.uk serps anomoly?

post allegra weirdness

[tomtomclub]

Has anyone got any experience of this?

Our site (example.co.uk) ranks somewhere between #20 & #30 on a google.co.uk 'the web' search for our two keyword phrase of choice. But, even though it's a .co.uk domain and hosted in the UK it ranks #381 (!) for when we narrow the search to 'pages from the UK' for the same two word phrase.

How is this possible? We get redirected to google.co.uk so I'm not sure what our ranking is on a google.com search. Can I force google to let me use the .com site?

Has anyone else experienced this? I've only noticed it post allegra (when our 'the web' ranking went up but our 'uk' ranking seems to have been killed...)

anj

[edited by: ciml at 8:32 pm (utc) on Feb. 15, 2005]
[edit reason] Examplified [/edit]

[ciml]

I wonder if you're just seeing different sets of results on those slightly different searches due to Google's recent update [webmasterworld.com].

[tomtomclub]

well, that's kind of what I was hoping but it's been stable for several days now so I fear the UK results are permanently odd! I just assumed that all google did when you switched from 'the web' to 'pages from the UK' was strip out the non-UK entries - but obviously it has to make it more complicated than that!

anj