Does it make a different to google what country is your site hosted?

[goneinthesun]

Does it make a different to google what country is your site hosted?

Any input and comment are appreciated.

[tedster]

The main issue will be geo-location factors and country or regionally made searches. Here are two discussions on the topic:

[webmasterworld.com...] -- Mar 2006
[webmasterworld.com...] -- Oct 2005

lammert, in the top thread:
There are at least five ways that Google can determine the country a
website targets: TLD, address in the whois, incoming links, language
on the site and IP address of the server