01.15.06

Do you know anything about Google localization?

Posted in Localization, Search, English Usage, Singapore, Asia at 2:51 pm by ngkaboon

Has anybody ever wondered if Google returns different results based on different localities (of course, we discount China in this instance)?

Now according to Phil, “mashup” “web 2.0″ returns 301,000 in Google UK (posting on Jan 13th). I keyed in the same search key-phrases (keyphrases or key-phrases?) in Google Singapore today, it returns 261,000. I tried going to Google UK, which strangely did not redirect me back to its Singapore site, it returns 260,000. First question: what happened to the 40,000 odd sites?
But assuming it did drop to 260,000, which 1000 sites is Google not showing for UK but is showing for Singapore?