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    Added on Tuesday 18 August 2009 16:31:21
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    For a followup post about this video, please see: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/more-about-generic-tlds-in-say-uk-results/

    guavarian from the UK asks:

    "Why are the UK SERPS still really poor with irrelevant non UK sites (US/Aus/NZ) ranking very high Google.co.uk since early June?"

    This video is part of a "Grab Bag" series in which Matt Cutts, head of Google's webspam team, answers questions from users. We're not currently taking new video questions, so your best bet for getting an answer about webmaster-related search issues is to head to our help forum: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en



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  • seosnatch

    Sometimes I wish I could find more information like this, very much appreciated.
    Saturday 05 November 2011 09:14:23
  • lolnubsauce763

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    Thursday 26 May 2011 22:26:19
  • dailyforman

    .com domain is 3 times cheaper than .co.uk and you still set to target users from UK using webmaster tools, so why pay 3 times more?...
    Sunday 24 October 2010 16:17:09
  • beniboza

    Completely avoids answering the question!!!
    Thursday 27 August 2009 03:41:08
  • ddrmegamixer

    I think whats more important is not giving me a list of dodgy websites that have fly by downloads or install asking sites which I don't click on as I have WOT and AVG and it happens a lot of the time if these two apps can spot it then why cant you.
    Thursday 20 August 2009 14:29:01
  • da64498

    I'm sorry, but this smacks completely of Google trying to provide an answer to question they don't want to answer. The number of blog posts and twitters @ Matt, there is no way on earth he misunderstood the question or missed what the actual problem is. They are obviously testing something out using UK SERPs as the test bed and for some reason, whatever that might be, don't want to tell the community what it is, which is completely up to them. Matt, don't insult us with such junk please.
    Thursday 20 August 2009 10:13:05
  • jackprince1983

    I'm with you on that ... but If we just ignore the "localization" via IP or the chosen URL for Google. Then the results for the other Manchester are maybe more important to the engine as the Manchester (UK) results are. Like I said its just a guess ... as google tries always tries to provide the result that most likely is suitable for the most users. And if the non UK sites managing the SEO (via content etc.) better there up in the list.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 19:44:55
  • Conceptskatemedia

    Can someone answer my question. Why is every moaning that this video was recorded a while ago? There is no problem with that at all.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 09:53:51
  • richardtvaughan

    The reason it's not answering the question is because this is a very old vid. Matt has a shaved head at the moment.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 05:25:05
  • StalkerB

    Yeah, totally not what the question was asking Matt. Gotta chip in on this one as it effects my everyday use of Google so I'd like to see this question answered properly please.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 05:09:52
  • antsplace

    Hi Matt,  As woodsandhillplc has mentioned, the question is about the quality of the UK serps, which at present is really poor. I have been looking at one term that in May had 14.2 million results, now in August has 42 million results. These additional results are from USA, India and other contries, will a lot more very low quality results thrown in. I have been an avid user of Google since it's inception but the results I see are so bad that I am now using another search engine.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 05:06:24
  • Grumblinho

    Your hair has grown back awfully quickly, Matt
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:56:52
  • woodsandhillsplc

    Im sorry but that was a joke. Matt, you read the question out differently to how it was, then basically answered it as if it was a completely different question!!! The gripes of the UK web industry has nothing to do with .coms !! No one has at any point said it has!! It was not in the question, and it was not in any of the hundreds of blogposts that have surrounded the issue. Very disappointed.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:22:30
  • TheJayCindy

    I can only apologise for my mixing up of your and you're :-(
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 04:08:14
  • TheJayCindy

    If you're in the UK, you're IP is in the UK, then 'Manchester' is not an unspecific query. Its one of the largest cities in the country, I don't think it would cross anyone's mind in Britain that there is another Manchester.
    Wednesday 19 August 2009 03:58:59
  • peppeddu

    If you want to see which search engine gives you the best results go to blindsearch. fejus. com Enter your search keywords and choose which of the three engines gives you the best results. After that it will tell you which search engine it was.
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 21:47:31
  • trinixia

    What kind of camera are you using?
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 20:24:44
  • jackprince1983

    I guess a query like "Manchester" is to unspecified for the engine. As Matt explains google tries to give the most relevant information to the user. Maybe for this kind of "unclear" results it would by a good idea to set geotags etc. for the site. Just a guess.
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 20:06:47
  • tinywookie

    the answer is 42, its the question that's wrong.
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 19:56:47
  • andrewbleakley

    Well then he did answer I suppose. Google is delivering incorrect and polluted results because they don't understand the question/query
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 18:30:34
  • SimonWharton

    No Matt, you've missed the point here. The problem isn't to do with domain suffix. The problem is that we are getting irrelevant sites from the English speaking world polluting the UK SERPs. For example, Manchester in the UK is quite a long way from Manchester NH yet we get Manchester NH results ranking VERY prominently in local search for Manchester UK related terms
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 18:18:52
  • calweb

    good vid. way to keep integrity of relevance on the top!
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 17:11:44
  • SteveMoonUK

    Interesting, many thanks.
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 17:09:07
  • tomashastings

    Nice threadless shirt you have there Matt!
    Tuesday 18 August 2009 17:06:39
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