If I compare the results of Google.com and Google.co.uk (Search the Web option) and Google.co.uk ( pages from UK) the results are not the same, they are different by a big margin. Can someone please explain what is the difference between the three search options? what exactly the "Search the web " does ? As the name indicates does it get the results from web ? If so why is there diff in search results of .com and .co.uk ( search the web option) ? Thanks in advance. Ramakrishna
Google can work out where you are and then tries to return results in your area whether you selected the web or your country. If you are targeting a specific country only then you'd be far better off using that country extension on your domain name to help google prioritise you for those country searches!
If you live outside the US, Google.com will pull results globally. Google.co.uk (Pages from UK) will pull results from only .co.uk websites, or websites that have set their preferred geographic target as UK. Google.co.uk (Pages from the web) will pull global results but put weight on any site that has the .co.uk domain extension or has set their preferred geo target as UK.
that is because google has over 43 data centers and results vary from data center to data center. if you look at google.co.uk it will cater more towards uk based sites. Search the web does not actually search the entire internet. It searches googles servers which has already spidered and indexed websites and kept. That is why you get queries in such blazing speed. So each server will house information differently. Google data center for .co.uk site may be diff from the one for .com. It all comes down to what kind of information you search for
The results on Google.com can be even different if you do search from a different geo-location. 1. The results for Google.com when you do search in US and UK is a little bit differet 2. The results for Google.com and Google.co.uk is more different but results on Google.co.uk is still close to Google.com since Google pull the pages from Global but put more concentration on pages from UK. 3. The results for Google.com and Google.co.uk with "only pages from UK" is totally different. This option will pull only pages from UK. I am sure that Google pull based on the hosting geo-location. All pages that hosted under UK hosts will be pulled first in this result. I am not sure if Google will pull pages that gave specific geo-location to UK but hosted under a different country or not.
i appreciate for taking out some time to answer my question.....But i was not exactly looking forward to target for my websites for country specific....i just wanted to know the concept ....
thats understood that google displays those web pages which had already been indexed.... any my question was not that .....