[47199] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google doing regional preferencing on results?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Sun Apr 28 03:09:59 2002
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From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
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Probably due to their technology:
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
-Hank
>Google appears to have the capability to georeference their index by country
>and possibly with even finer geographic granularity.
>
>I noticed that they are now redirecting users to country specific versions
>of their web page which appears to be done through the various IP address to
>location tools.
>
>Given that Google *seems to know* where the user is, and where the web pages
>are, perhaps they are now including geographic relevance in the search
>engine relevancy metrics.
