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Re: Re: hosting recommendations?



Keith Doxey wrote:
> Googling for "diyha site:uk" returns my website as top of
the list and
> it is sitting on a server in Houston.
> I think that "site:whatever" works purely on the domain name
so anyone
> with a dotCom address will be excluded from a UK search irrespective
> of where the server is located.
> Then again, I could be wrong :-)
>

site:uk in the search is not the same thing as clicking on the uk only
button on the google.co.uk page.

Being a .co.uk address seems to override any IP address filtering that's
done though because you're still there with the UK button clicked. Well
known uk .com addresses still appear with the button pressed though.

Jim



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