A local google search in South Africa, for instance, will obviously only bring up South African pages, but I need to
know if I can submit my French or Italian site to search engines to be available in a different regional search – like
a Dutch hosted site available in a UK google search (UK person doing a local search in the UK)
Generally, Google search for all sites in the choosen language, doesn't matter where they're from; for instance, if you're looking for a sentence, Google will search in every site that contains that sentence, doesn't matter if they're from Italy, Japan, Cimmeria…
In order to do a search only on sites from a specific Country, you have to manually change your options on Google, by clicking on "Pages from"
Ask Google.
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I would imagine that as long as the domain name ends with the .uk country designation, it wouldn't matter where the site is hosted and it would then be able to be included in a localized search.
But hey, what does a Yank like me know.
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Generally, Google search for all sites in the choosen language, doesn't matter where they're from; for instance, if you're looking for a sentence, Google will search in every site that contains that sentence, doesn't matter if they're from Italy, Japan, Cimmeria…
In order to do a search only on sites from a specific Country, you have to manually change your options on Google, by clicking on "Pages from"
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Hi
Google does slightly favour local sites, even using all "languages" and search "the web".
So, a UK based website does slightly better on google.co.uk
If you set up google in a different language it will favour sites in the same language you have set up.
To see the differences, search in google.com, google.co.uk, Google.fr for http://www.the-languedoc-page.com. For each one play with the language selections.
That site is hosted in UK, and comes above wiki in .co.uk, but below wiki in .com.
It used to be hosted in France, and came below wiki in .co.uk at that time.
Peter
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