Country-level boost to links/anchor text? Maybe.

[glengara]

I'm "on" G.ie and recently looked at "web widget" on the various English language Gs, not only did the "web search" SERPs differ so did the allinanchor results which both featured "local" listings not found elsewhere.

The other thing is that not long ago an Irish site would never have featured top ten for a generic term in the "web search" results without having to add Irish/Ireland, now they do.
At the moment it seems completely random, there one day gone the next, for one search term but not another, but it looks to me like G is playing with regionalising "web search" results.

One obvious way to do it is to boost local links/anchor text, easy enough to do and stays within their "traditional" quality/ranking parameters.

[tedster]

Interesting - do those sites that are newly showing up for you have many backlinks from outside Ireland?

[steve40]

I have wondered about new links providing boost for short periods in serps results , and this could just be a further enhancement

New link to page from GEO Australia page plus strength of link plus content relation to target link possibly give boost to blue widget result in AU results
G then collects enough data to work out if result == number 1 how many users would bookmark if they were happy and how many other links might it generate from other AU users if results then fell within xx range could it then be exported to main results.

by combining searcher habbits with links obtained and onpage factors , age, etc. could the algo have more AI built in

The gain to G could be 1000 links bought from GEOTARGET China would have little or no impact on serps

steve

[glengara]

What I suspect is that G is "regionalising" results a lot more than we may have thought, e.g. for a search on G.com from the US the results are as US biased as they are for UK sites on a "web search" on G.co.uk.

Can anyone come up with an explanation on why allinanchor results should differ on the various Gs?