{"id":3378,"date":"2009-11-05T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidnaylor.co.uk\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T14:49:29","slug":"google-uk-results-still-showing-irrelevant-us-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/google-uk-results-still-showing-irrelevant-us-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Google UK Results Still Showing Irrelevant US Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsafamilything.co.uk\/whoops-i-crashed-the-car-again.html\">I crashed my car<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/our-ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF1616.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/our-ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF1616-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Paul's crashed car\" title=\"Paul's crashed car\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3486\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Having congratulated myself on my driving skills, I started to weigh up whether it would be cheaper to go through the insurance or just buy a door off the internets. Regardless of what we were saying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidnaylor.co.uk\/will-twitter-replace-google.html\">yesterday<\/a>, I didn&#8217;t bother Twittering about it or asking my Facebook friends for advice &#8211; I went to Google.<\/p>\n<p>Search Google.co.uk for &#8220;toyota corolla rear door&#8221; and this is what you get&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3379\" title=\"usa\" src=\"\/our-ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/usa.jpg\" alt=\"usa\" width=\"505\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Matt Cutts mentioned this in a Webmaster Central video (see below to watch him not quite answering the question), but really I think Google needs to sort out what the purpose of Google.co.uk is. If it isn&#8217;t going to give results weighted to the UK in the first place then\u00a0I don&#8217;t quite get it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not <em>often<\/em> a problem, but when it is, it always seems to be some kind of vertical you&#8217;d think would be an obvious thing to skew to the UK &#8211; like car parts in this instance. More importantly, if anyone wants to flog me a rear passenger side door for a 2003 Corolla&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OgMdRKJOE_M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OgMdRKJOE_M&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I crashed my car. Having congratulated myself on my driving skills, I started to weigh up whether it would be cheaper to go through the insurance or just buy a door off the internets. Regardless of what we were saying yesterday, I didn&#8217;t bother Twittering about it or asking my Facebook friends for advice &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine-optimisation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}