If you search same keywords in yahoo.com and yahoo.co.uk you might have seen different websites making it to top ten This could have been of some advantage to local websites if yahoo.com gets redirected to yahoo.co.uk whenever some one access it from UK Google follows this model, that is google.com gets redirected to google.co.uk if you try to access from UK Does anyone know the reason behind this ?
IT Career, obviously the search engines are relying on your IP address to distinguish between UK and non-UK connections. You've also got the "UK only filter". From experience, I'd suggest the Google.co.uk filter is used more often than the Yahoo equivalent.
I think. they have server for differnt countries. some countries have dialup connections. so may be these server for their coutries help them to open sites fast.
The fact that google redirects me on google.it everytime i look for something in foreign country really bother me. If I call google.com in my browser, it means I really want to search something in the US and I dont want 200 italian websites on top of my search results. I'm happy with yahoo not redirecting by default.
I think it's the same whether Yahoo or Google. For example, I am in Malaysia .. for google.com.. I will get google.com.my .. for yahoo, even though it is yahoo.com, the overall look has been localized to Yahoo Asia / Malaysia. Usually, I would go to the specific country page, when needed.