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i always thought that it has to do something with "bring better SERP for the area they serve"
also not all sites do get indexed by country specific Googles.
one of my experience....
when i was working with a site that was out of Canada, the site only got listed on Google.ca & Yahoo.ca
took another 2 mo. and number of e-mails to get that listed on .com