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Google just had a massive update regarding what results are shown when using different Google domains.
For example, if you were located in Italy and wanted to use google.it for local searches and google.com for international searches, Google used to deliver two different search results, one for google.it and one for google.com.
After this update, ALL results will be the same no matter what Google domain you are using. In other words, the results will be the same both for google.it and google.com, which makes me wonder why Google is giving us the option to access these domains anymore.
It also doesn't matter if you turn the browser location detector off, Google is still going to figure out your location based on your IP address.
This SUCKS for a lot of reasons, both it will definitely suck for SEO specialists that have international clients and simply need to see direct and real search results for those specific Google ccTLDs.
This is the official message from Google:
"Today, we’ve updated the way we label country services on the mobile web, the Google app for iOS, and desktop Search and Maps. Now the choice of country service will no longer be indicated by domain. Instead, by default, you’ll be served the country service that corresponds to your location. So if you live in Australia, you’ll automatically receive the country service for Australia, but when you travel to New Zealand, your results will switch automatically to the country service for New Zealand. Upon return to Australia, you will seamlessly revert back to the Australian country service."
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Even if we (as SEO freelancers) use proxies to see international search pages, it's hard to know what our customer's visitors going to see when they search for something. Kind of messy right now, or i have to shake my head better to put all this in function LOL Ohhh Google..... Pain in the but :) As soon we get used to something they change the game rules, as usual. In some way i see it very useful from some point of view, wile in the other hand it's real crap... Once again i feel like we don't build websites for our self or our customers, but just to play "Google game" and be slaves of their global monopoly... Even if we (as SEO freelancers) use proxies to see international search pages, it's hard to know what our customer's visitors going to see when they search for something. Kind of messy right now, or i have to shake my head better to put all this in function LOL :D
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