RE: Google doing regional preferencing on results?

[Randy Neals]

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.

Or maybe not! These are only my observations.
(I've also noticed that I have had more connection errors recently in
initially connecting to the google site and this coincidently started about
the time that we began being automatically redirected from the
www.google.com to www.google.ca)

-Randy

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Goldstein [mailto:sgoldste@nsf.gov]
Sent: April 26, 2002 12:52 PM
To: Avleen Vig
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Google doing regional preferencing on results?



**If** they cache and replicate, it could be that the caches are not 
always identical in different places.  If they are replicated, 
perhaps a replication cycle lagged in one of the two locations.

  --Steve

At 5:36 PM +0100 4/26/02, Avleen Vig wrote:
>it gives you different
>results depending on where in the world you search from.