How are "Local" allinanchor results calculated?.

[glengara]

Time was allinanchor results didn't vary between "web search" and "pages from Ireland'.
Now they do, and correspond very closely to both "pages from Ireland" search results and how Irish results appear on a "web search".

(I use G.ie just as an example, it happens with all the regional Gs I looked at.)

Question is, is the provenance of the link anchor text a factor or is it solely down to the site being local?

[edited by: tedster at 4:46 pm (utc) on July 31, 2007]

[tedster]

I would assume that the local nature of the site where the anchor tag appears is the determining factor. That makes the most sense to me, since you can use any character string you want for the allinanchor: operator. Not just a domain name, but any anchor text at all.

[glengara]

Typical! Now on "pages from Ireland" the search and allinanchor results vary wildly :-(