Hi, Can anyone tell me please what's local version of Google? What's difference between local and global versions of Google? Regards HZ
Google.com is global. Google.es is Google focused on Spain pages and on Spain language. Google.de is for Deutschland Google.fr is for France Google.ru is for Russia etc etc.
local version is depend on what country you're living... example your in philippines then the local google is google.com.ph local is geo targeted for specific place while global is the vice versa.. + they have different data center
It depends on from where you are accessing Google. For example if you are accessing Google from India than www.google.co.in is local version of Google.
People talk the biggest load of old cods walllop! Google local is either the Google version in your Country or can also apply to the results on Google.com.com that are geographically relevant to your area as well as many other things that following posters with sense will elaborate on (as there is another thing about Google local that springs to mind in the first instance but lets give others a chance to explain!) >
Local version of Google is those which have the ccTLD extension. Like if you go to google from India, you'll land up in google.co.in, if you are from Germany, it'll be google.de. They mainly do it to serve better results and localized search quarries.
Google will modify your search results based on your location and if you are logged in to a Google account (such as when you log into Gmail). These features can generally be turned off.
Ya i agreed if you are accessing Google from india then Google.co.in is the local version of google..
Google Local is actually different than that (at least in the USA). Whenever someone in the USA searches for services in their city, Google in the US shows 10 "Local" results first, before showing normal, organic listings. Meaning, for visitors in Chicago, if they search for "Apartments" or "Restaurants", "Plumbers", Google shows the local directory listings for Chicago listings first, usually 10 local listings or so. Then below that you may see a few Adwords ads, then organic listings are at the bottom.